Ravishment
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In criminal law. An unlawful taking of a woman, or of an heir in ward; rape. RAVISHMENT DE CARD (Law Fr.) An abohshed writ, which lay for a guardian by knight's service or in socage, against a person who took from him the body of his ward.
Pitzh. Nat. Brev. 140; 12 Car. II. c. 3.