Prender
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
fr. To take, taking; the power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Thus a heriot is said to lie in prender because the lord may seize the identical thing itself; but he may not distrain for it.