tolour (c.1136-65)

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

Search Results

Your search results will appear here.

tolour (c.1136-65)

[dd]

[FEW: 13/ii,19b tollere; Gdf: 7,737b toleor; GdfC: ; TL: 10,362 toleor; DEAF:  tolir (toleor); DMF:  toleur; TLF: ; OED:  toller n.4; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
toleor,  tolor,  tollour,  tolur  

s.

1thief, robber
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  od le dime numbre perdu Serrant li toleor rendu  2382
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiiim )  li tolur e li usurier funt almones e dunent les usures e les ravines, mes nunfeel sunt vers qu[i] il unt despoillié  3675
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1300 )  il est Deu tolur Ke n'est dreit donur De kanke il ad  391
2lawtoller, one who, after the death of a tenant, accesses the land and declares himself the rightful heir or reversioner, even when he is not
( 1292 )  la seisine W. a nus ne deyt nure, par la resone ke yl entra cum nostre tolour e frere puyné  20-21 Ed I 295
( 1316-17 )  il entra cum tolor qe y fut bastard  Ed II xxi 24
( 1341 )  fust tenuz de faire restitucion a nous de nostre heritage pleinement a nostre age, et par son assent W., nostre frere puisné, come nostre tollour, entra et lui feffa  15 Ed III 23
tolage  tolance  toleresse  tolette  tolir  tolette  tolte 
This is an AND2 Phase 6 (T-Z) entry. © 2022-25 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
tolour