Disrationare

I I. In old English law. tablish a claim, charge or accusation.

Lat. [L. Fr. desreigner.'] In old English law. To prove; to deraign; to establish or make good a claim, charge or accusation. Bract, ub. infra. Spelman considers this as merely another form of diratumare, (q. v.): and makes its proper signification to be, to disprove or refute, (from dis, priv. and ratiocinari, to prove.) It is, however, never employed m this sense by Bracton, who uses it frequently, but only in the sense first ^ven. JSt quod fecit hoc — offert se disrationare versus eum; and that he did this— he offers himself to deraign (or prove) against him. Bract, fol. 138. See id. fol. 101 b, 119, 372 b, 373 b. Sinegaverit, oportet quod appellatus hoc disrationet versus eum; if he deny, the appellee must deraign this against him. Id. fol. 151. JDat appellatu3 vadium se defendendi, et appellator vadium disrationandi; the appellee gives pledge to defend himself, and the appellor pledge to deraign (or prove his charge.) Id, fol. 137, 144, 153. Corpus disra Honare; to deraign (or prove) the hody: to prove a man to be another's villein. Id. fol. 25 b, 191. Villanus fait, quia disrationavit eum coram justitiariis in villanum Mtum; he was a villein, because he proved him before the justices to be his villein. Id, fol. 199 b, 306. Disrationatio is used in the same sense. See infra.