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dearrestare

dearrestare [cf. arrestare, OF desarrester] , to release from arrest or seizure: a (persons); b (goods etc.); v. et. disarrestare. a 1317 fiduciam ‥ dearestandi, quietandi et deliberandi ‥ omnes de gentibus ‥ comitis [Lanc’] (Pat) Foed. III 667b.  b 1278 si ‥ innotuisset veritas, ‥ fecissetis ~ari ‥ mercimonia predicta RGasc II 70 (= Foed. II 127b); 1294 precipimus quod omnes lanas, pelles lanutas, que ‥ fuerint †arrestata ‥ sine dilacione dearestari facias (Breve Regis) B. Cotton 246; 1315 quod ‥ mercimonia illa ~ari ‥ facerent (CoramR) Law Merch. II 86; 1335 (v. dearrestatio b); 1372 breve pro mercatoribus Flandrie, de bonis suis dearestandis (LBLond. G f. 28b) MGL I 541.

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