"esnecy" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "See eigne.",
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      "expansion": "esnecy (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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          "name": "British English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Collectanea Archæologica: Communications Made to the British Archaeological Association, volume 1, page 43:",
          "text": "When, in the fourteenth century, the estates of the Corbets were divided amongst their co-heirs, Caus Castle, being of the esnecy of the elder sister, passed to the Barons Stafford.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, William Farrer, Honors and Knights' Fees, page 261:",
          "text": "In 1224 Walter de Besebroc and Joan his wife, Richard de Dunuar (or Dunnewer) and Agnes his wife were parceners of land in (Little) Newton, Northants.,[…]Walter and Joan had the esnecy; the inheritance extended into Rushton and Geddington, Northants.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Preserved in the Public Record Office: 1258-1266, Great Britain: Public Record Office, page 13:",
          "text": "[…]touching the purparty of Maud of the inheritance of William de Brehusa, father of Maud and Eleanor, whose heirs these are; of which inheritance the said Roger and Maud required esnecy, and thereof there was a plea in the said court[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener (or whomever of the coparceners is so entitled by a court) to choose first after an inheritance is divided."
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          "prerogative",
          "prerogative"
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          "eldest",
          "eldest"
        ],
        [
          "coparcener",
          "coparcener"
        ],
        [
          "inheritance",
          "inheritance"
        ],
        [
          "divide",
          "divide"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, law, obsolete or historical) A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener (or whomever of the coparceners is so entitled by a court) to choose first after an inheritance is divided."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
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        "law"
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  ],
  "word": "esnecy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "See eigne.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Law"
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        {
          "ref": "1862, Collectanea Archæologica: Communications Made to the British Archaeological Association, volume 1, page 43:",
          "text": "When, in the fourteenth century, the estates of the Corbets were divided amongst their co-heirs, Caus Castle, being of the esnecy of the elder sister, passed to the Barons Stafford.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, William Farrer, Honors and Knights' Fees, page 261:",
          "text": "In 1224 Walter de Besebroc and Joan his wife, Richard de Dunuar (or Dunnewer) and Agnes his wife were parceners of land in (Little) Newton, Northants.,[…]Walter and Joan had the esnecy; the inheritance extended into Rushton and Geddington, Northants.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Preserved in the Public Record Office: 1258-1266, Great Britain: Public Record Office, page 13:",
          "text": "[…]touching the purparty of Maud of the inheritance of William de Brehusa, father of Maud and Eleanor, whose heirs these are; of which inheritance the said Roger and Maud required esnecy, and thereof there was a plea in the said court[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener (or whomever of the coparceners is so entitled by a court) to choose first after an inheritance is divided."
      ],
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          "coparcener",
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          "inheritance",
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        ],
        [
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          "divide"
        ]
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        "(UK, law, obsolete or historical) A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener (or whomever of the coparceners is so entitled by a court) to choose first after an inheritance is divided."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "historical",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "esnecy"
}