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recreantisa

recreantisa [OF recreantise] , acknowledgement of or fine for defeat in judicial combat. 1157 Selida debet lx s. pro ~a Pipe 114; 1180 debet lx s. de recreantissa Roberti RScacNorm I 30; finito autem duello pena lx s. imminebit victo nomine ~e Glanv. II 3; si sponsus [uxoris rapte] victus fuerit [duello], xl s. et j d. dabit pro ~a Cust. Norm. 50. 5; in curia seculi mos est si quis victus in duello ~ie verbum emiserit, de cetero non pro homine reputabitur W. Leic. Sim. (MS Lincs) f. 87va; 1231 abbas exigebat ab eodem Roberto xl s. et j d. nomine recreauntise tanquam ipse convictus esset in campo BNB II 398; sic percutiatur inter eos duellum ‥ . et si appellatus victus fuerit ‥ non sufficit quod appellatus cognoscat se fuisse socium suum, vel latronem, vel aliquid consimile ad ~iam, nisi dicat illud verbum odiosum, quod recreantus sit Bracton f. 153; 1317 [let Richard and John (appellers after acquittal of appellee) be taken for recreance] recreancia CourtR Wakefield IV 196.

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