Advocare

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In old English law. To call to or upon; to call in aid; to call upon one to warrant another's title; to vouch; to avow; to acknowledge or openly admit, accept, justify and maintain a thing; to acknowledge a child; to advocate, protect or defend; to assert the rights of advocacy or patronage; to exercise the right of presentation to a vacant benefice; to call a clerk to a vacant benefice; to present a clerk to such a benefice; to claim; to avow in replevin.

Lat. To defend; to call to one’s aid; to vouch; to warrant.

Lat. [from ad, to, and vocare, to call.] To call to, or upon, to call in aid; to call upon one to warrant another's title, to vouch. Spelman, voc. Advocatus, See Vocare, Vouch, To avow, (advow,) to acknowledge, or openly admit, adopt, justify and maintain a tning; {rem factam agnoscere, rem inse suadpere.) Spelman, uh, sup. Advocare fi- Hum; to acknowledge a child. Bract, fol. 63 b. Dominus cum [factum"] advocaverit, suam facit injuriam; when the lord avows (adopts) the act, he makes the wrong his own. Id. fol. 171 b, 204 b. To advocate, defend, or protect. Spelman, voc. Advocatus. Si non dominum hahuerit qui advocet eum; if he have no lord who will defend him. Bract, fol. 152 a. To assert the i-ight of advocacy, or patronage, ( ju^ paironatus;) to exercise the right of presentation to a vacant benefice; to call a clerk to such benefice, to present him.* Spelman, ub, sup. Glanv. lib. 4, c. 1. Skene de verb, signif. cited in Cowell. To claim. Animo Uia vfigantia qucs nullus — advocat; wandering animals, which no one claims. Bract, fol. 120 a. To avow. in replevin. Beg. Orig, 83 a.