Escambium
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Escham Uumy Excambium. L. Lat.
In old English law
Exchange.
See Escambio, Excambium, Recompense in value. Anciently, when land was recovered of a tenant, as in an action of dower, and the tenant had vouched another to warranty, he was allowed out of the vouchee's land enough to make up for what he had lost, which was called escambium ad valentiam; (Fr. eschaunge a la vaillaunce.) Bract, fol.
27, 296 b, 301, 387 b.
Britt. c.
76, 106.