lova

1 lova [MElove] 1 (in ~a et laga [= ME in love and laue]) by amicable settlement and by legal action. c1174 nisi fuerit in †luna [l. luva] et lagha burgensium Wellarum (Wells) BBC 212 (cf. (Chard) BBC 287: 1235 †lima). 2 ‘love-boon’, boon-work performed for feudal superior. 1306 respondet ‥ de iiij s. x d. receptis de consuetudinibus ~arum arur’ et herc’ aretro (Glos) MinAc 856/15 m. 1; bratiat’ pro ~is metencium apud Lowes Mere et precar’ meticionis apud Hampton, Avenyng, et Lowesmere, iij bussellos brasii frumenti ‥ Ib. 856/15 m. 2d.; in expensis famulorum die ~e metencium, j [carcosium multonis] Ib. 856/15 m. 3d.; 1311 de consuetudinibus ~arum arature et herciacionis (Glos) Ib. 856/17 m. 1.

2 lova v. lovum