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respectuare [CL respectus+-are], to grant delay or postponement of (legal action, repayment, giving of allegiance), to postpone or respite. b to allow (money or debt) to remain unpaid for a time. 1295 ad judicia ob difficultates seu ambiguitates in eadem curia ~uata circumspeccius reddenda IPM 70/1 m. 6; de restitucione exituum ‥ de maneriis ‥ ~uatur usque a die Paschae in quindecim dies G. S. Alb. III 25; si vocat puerum infra etatem, loquela erat ~uata usque ad etatem pueri Quon. Attach. 90. 2; 1376 homagium suum ad octabas Sancti Hilarii proximas futuras ~uavimus RScot 978a; 1397 execucio judicii ~uatur quousque ‥ Reg. Heref. 153; s1436 evigilaret causam quamdam somniferam ‥ pro quadam via communi, jam per annos plurimos ~uatam Amund. II 121.  b 1309 de debitis regis Edwardi et Rogeri Maubray ~uandis RScot 65a; 1314 ij s. iiij d. ~uantur, ita quod si magis deliquit leventur Rec. Leic. I 290; 1332 ad quem diem compotus istius vicecomitis ‥ ~uatur LTR Mem 105 m. 7d.; 1445 denarios sibi ~uatos in eodem compoto Law Merch. II 107.

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