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Aiel

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Ayel, Aile, Ayle. In old practice. A writ which lay for an heir to recover the possession of lands on the seisin of his grandfather, {aiel or aieul.)* Called by Roscoe a possessory ancestral writ.

1 Roscoe Real Act. 127.

Ayle is the most common form of this word, and is used by Blackstone.

3 Bl. Com. 186.

See Ayle.

See Ayle.