Deadvocare

I. I. In old its advocacy; to disavow

Lat. [from de priv. and advocare, to advocate or acknowledge.] In old English law. To abandon a cause, {causam deserere,) or give up its advocacy. Spelman, To disavow, or disclaim; to refuse to acknowledge. Id, Applied in Bracton to the refusal of a tenant to acknowledge a new lord to whom he had been transferred, or attorned by his former lord, and to the refusal of a man to acknowledge a child to be his. ^rac^. fol. 82, 203 b. /rf. fol. 278.