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Besayle
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noun
Besayle
,
Besaile
,
Besaiel
n.
1.
A great-grandfather. (Obs.)
2.
(Law) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished.
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