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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375-1499
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War(r)andy, n. Also: warrantie, waranty. [ME and e.m.E. warantie (Manning), warantye (1495), warranty (1543), AF (OF) warantie.] a. Protection. b. Charter, clause of warrandy, (part of) a document expressing the details of a legal obligation or guarantee.a. ?1438 Alex. ii 1480.
The gude and the hardy Of ȝour cours sall haue warrandyb. 1292 Facs. Nat. MSS I 39.]
[Cum quodam scripto per quod comes de Boughan tenetur ad warantyam et equivalenciam faciendam senescallo Scocie de quibusdam terris c1379 MacRae Early Sc. Texts No. 1.
I sall gif hym my charter vndir my seyll wyth al clavse & al fredome pertenand to blancheferme of a peny … & wyth clavse of waranty 1391 Exchequer Rolls III 251.
Per cartam … cum clausula warrantie [pr. warrancie] a1409 Home Charter MS.
That we sal enfefe with charter and clawse of warandy als frely as we haf it, oure cusyng … of twa hundreth mark [etc.] 1419 Hay Geneal. Sainteclaires 60.
With cunable chartars of blench ferme contenand clause of warandy 14.. Quoniam Attachiamenta c. 39.
Ony tenement of the quhilk he is infeft of ony lord be charter of warandy
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