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Definition: Writ of tresayle
Tresayle
\Tres"ayle`\ (tr[e^]s"[=a]l`), n. [F. trisa["i]eul,
from L. tris, tres, three + F. a["i]eul grandfather. Cf.
Besaiel, and see
Ayle.]
A grandfather's grandfather. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law), a writ which lay for a man
claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to
recover lands of which he had been deprived by an
abatement happening on the ancestor's death. --Mozley & W.
[1913 Webster]