Withernam
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In practice
A taking by way of reprisal; a taking or a reprisal of other goods, in lieu of those that were formerly token and eloigned or withholden.
2 Inst. 141.
A reciprocal distress, in lieu of a previous one which has bcen eloigned.
3 Bl. Comm. 148.