Essoniare
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In old English practice. To essoin; to present an excuse or essoin to a court.
Spelman.
Bract. fol.
340, et seq.
Essoniator; an essoiner; a person sent to essoin another, or present an excuse for him; an excuser, (excusator.) Bract. fol.
337 b. 1 Reeves' Hist. 116, 118.
Essoniatus; a person essoined, or for whom an essoin was presented. Glanv. lib.
1, c. 25.
Bract. fol.
343 b.