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forestallatio

forestallatio 1 ambush, waylaying (of person). b obstructing (of beast). 1288 pro vulneracione et forstallacione facta Willelmi le Suron PlRChester 6 r. 2d..  b 1184 forstallationem (v. deafforestare). 2 intercepting of goods, forestalling of market. 1330 dicit quod quicumque fuerit forstallator et forstallaverit victualia veniencia ad mercata. ‥prima vice qua convictus fuerit de forstallacione‥ PQW 555b; 1355 ne qui forstallatores, privati mercatores, broggatores‥per hujusmodi forstallacionem‥emant‥pisces StatIr I 400; 1375 forstallavit xx quarteria frumenti ‥ per quorum forstallacionem et abducionem blada ubique in patria magis cariora devenerunt SessPLincs 96. 3 (? illegal) recovery of impounded or stolen animal. 1535 pro quadam forstallacione dicti ballivi et rescusso facto super quamdam aliam arestamen’ de duobus bonis unius equi ‥ et unius juvenci Rutland MSS MinAc (Salop.) 11.

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