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Craven

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

cravent, cravant.

In old English law

A word of disgrace, in the trial by battel, on the uttering of which by either champion he demned, as a recreant, to become infamous, and not to be accounted a free and lawful man. v. Battel; Champion; Recreant.