Prender
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
To take. The law- French form of the verb prendre. It is said to mean the power or right of taking a thing before it is offered; hence the phrase of law, " it lies in render, but not in prender." Prender de baron. To take a husband, was used for an exception to disable a woman from pursuing an appeal of murder against one who killed her former husband. PREPENSK Aforethought, q. v.