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Webster 1913 Edition
Besayle
{
, Be-saiel′
,Be-saile′
,Be-sayle′
}Noun.
[OF.
beseel
, F. bisaïeul
, fr. L. bis
twice + LL. avolus
, dim. of L. avus
grandfather.] 1.
A great-grandfather.
[Obs.]
2.
(Law)
A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished.
Blackstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Besayle
BESA'YLE
,Noun.
If the abatement happened on the death of one's grandfather or grandmother, a writ of ayle lieth; if on the death of the great grandfather, then a writ of besayle; but if it mounts one degree higher, to the tresayle, or grandfather's grandfather, &c.,the writ is called a writ of cosinage, or de consanguineo.