Rescussor
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The party making a rescue is sometimes so called; but more properly he is a "rescuer." RESCUSSUS (Law Lat; from Law Fr. rescous).
In old English law
Rescue; forcible liberation or release.
Spelman.
RESCUTERE (Law Lat.) In old English law. To rescue. Rescussit, he rescued.
Reg. Orig. 117; 3 P. Wms. 484.
Rescusserunt, they rescued.
Reg. Orig. 118.
RESCYT (Law Pr.) Resceit; receipt; the receiving or harboring a felon, after the commission of crime. Britt. c.
23.
RESEANTISA (Law Lat.; from Law Fr. reseance). In old English and Scotch law.
Residence.
Pleta, lib.
6, c. 3, §2; Spelman.
RESEISER (Law Lat. reseisire).
In old English law
A taking back of seisin. A taking again of lands into the hands of the king, whereof a general livery or ouster le main was formerly issued, contrary to the form and order of law.
Staundf. Pr. Reg. 26; Cowell.