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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

To dub or make a knight.

Cowell.

Arma capere or suscipere, to take upon one the order of knighthood.

2 Reeves, Hist. Eng. Law, 288.

ARMA IN ARMATOS SUMERE JURA sinunt. The laws permit the taking up of arms against armed persons.

2 Inst. 574.

ARMA MOLUTA (Lat) Sharp weapons; weapons which cut, as distinguished from those which bruise. Cowell; Blount. ARMATA VIS (Lat.) In the civil law. Armed force.

Dig. 43. 16. 3; Fleta, lib. 4. c. 4.

ARMIGER (Lat.) An armor bearer; an esquire; a title of dignity belonging to gentlemen authorized to bear arms.

Ken- 6 nett.

Par. Ant.; Cowell. In its earlier meaning, a servant who carried the arms of a knight.

Spelman.

A tenant by scutage; a servant or valet;