Cosenage
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In old English law
Kindred ; cousinship. Also a writ that lay for the heir where the tresail, i. e., the father of the besail or great-grandfather, was seised of lands in fee at his death, and a stranger entered upon the land and abated.
Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 221.