Defensio
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Defentio.
L. Lat.
Defence
Feoffatus habebit defensionem suum in manu sua; the feoffee will have his own defence in his own hand. Bract. fol.
21 b.
Defensio contra sectam; defence against the suit. Id. fol.
290 b.
Defensiones; defences. Id. fol.
268 b.
In old statutes.
Prohibition
Statutum de defensione portandi arma, &c.; the statute of prohibition of bearing arms, &c. (7 Edw. I.) Cowell.