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Abjurare

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Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. [from a6, from, and jurare, to swear; L. Fr. forjurer.] To swear from; to swear to give up, or leave a thing, or place; to renounce or abandon by, or upon oath; to forswear. Abjurare regnum; to abjure the realm, to swear to leave it. Bract, fol. 136 b. 136 a. Si fur ccnvictus fuerit, aut morti tradatur, aut regnum abjuret, vel patriam, comitatum, civitatem, hurgum vel villam; if the thief be convicted, he shall either be delivered up to death, or he shall abjure the realm, or the country, the county, city, borough, or town. Id. fol. 151 b. Abjurare terrain; to abjure the land. Ariiculi cleri, c. 10.