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waiviaria [waiviare+-aria; cf. AN weiverie], (leg.) deprival (of woman) of the protection of the law (as punitive measure broadly equivalent to but properly distinct from outlawing of man), ‘waiving’. 1359 Baldewinus ea occasione postmodum utlagatus et predicta Beatrix ‥ wayviata, sicut per tenorem recordi et processus utlagarie et wayviarie ‥ constat Pat 256 m. 11; 1376 perdonavimus Alicie Perriers ‥ omnimodas felonias ‥ ac eciam ~as, si que in ipsam hiis occasionibus fuerint promulgate Ib. 295 m. 20; wayveria cujusdam mulieris MGL I 624; in promulgacionibus utlagarie in I. F. et ~ie in Margaretam uxorem ejus Reg. Brev. Orig. f. 132v; utlagatus et ‥ waviata [uxor ejus] fuerunt et occasione utlagarie et waviarie ‥ se prisone nostre de Flete reddiderunt Entries 458ra.

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