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.