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pendentia [cf. 1 pendere] 1 something that deserves hanging (as form of punishment, torture, or execution). 1377 eam tali modo torquebant‥ .omne genus ~ie et nequicie eidem Alicie imposuerunt KB ContrR 30 m. 11Cd.. 2 schedule of arrears, the sum of amounts pending represented by such a schedule (Scot). 1391 summa hujus ~ie et allocacionis, xxiiij li.; et sic debet xij li. ij s. ij d. de claro hic, preter ~ias ut supra ExchScot 266; 1464 expense granorum restancium in computo suo ‥ preter ~ias super comitem Rossie ExchScot 278; 1469 ideo scribendum est baroni de K., camerario dictarum terrarum, quatenus distringat pro hujusmodi ~iis et inducat easdem, quia onerabitur cum eisdem in proximo computo suo Ib. 639; 1471 summa utriusque reste absque ~iis, jcliij li. iij s. x d. ob ExchScot 46; 1476 non onerat se de ijclxxxx li. xviij s. pendentibus super G. comitem de Huntlie ‥ prout latius continetur in ~iis anni septuagesimi secundi et non onere septuagesimi tercii Ib. 378; 1479 summa harum ~iarum, iij celdre viij bolle ordei Ib. 574. 3 period during which matters are left pendent or undecided; b (leg., ~ia litis) period during which a suit is pending, or status created by the fact of a suit being pending. sic per quandam continuacionem semper aut consilium vigeat aut per anni ~iam expectetur Bower XVI 2.  b noluit sub tali litis ~ia monasterium suum expensis incommodis ulterius pregravare Meaux III 271; si mulier contra quam agitur in causa matrimoniali non obstante ~ia litis et inhibitione quod lite pendente non convolaret ad alias nuptias ‥ matrimonium contraxerit cum alio ‥ tam ipsa quam vir ille ‥ sunt arbitrario judicis puniendi et publice corrigendi Praxis 197.

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