1lawabduction (of an unmarried woman):
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
Rap est proprement alopement de femme pur desir del mariage
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2lawelopement, married woman's running away from her husband with a lover:
(
1338
)
alopement fuit aleggé en autre counté qe la dowere ne fut demandé
11-12 Ed III 587
(
c.1420-32
)
si ele fait aloupement saunz reconsiling de son baron
i lxxxiii.74
♦
lawstate of having eloped, concubinage with a lover:
(
c.1437
)
son mere fuit contynuelment en alopement ové son avowterour per un an devaunt q’il fuit engendré
i clxv.426
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alopement (s.xiiiex)