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‖ ouster-le-main Feudal Law.
[a. AF. ouster la main, in L. āmovēre manum to take away or remove the hand.]
A livery of land out of the sovereign's hands, on a judgement given for one who has pleaded that the sovereign has no title to hold it; also, a judgement or writ granting such livery. b. The delivery of lands out of a guardian's hands on a ward's coming of age.
[1321–2Rolls of Parlt. I. 404/1 Il prie a nostre Seignur le Roi, q'il voille comaunder au dit Richard de ouster la main des biens avantditz.] 1485Ibid. VI. 280/2 By Petition, Livere, Ouster la mayne, or otherwise. a1558W. Stanford Kings Prerog. x. (1567) 37 b, Learne whether the kinges interest is suche that after the deathe of the lunatike..there must be an Ouster le mayn sued. a1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 329 An ouster lemain shall be awarded for the partie out of the Chancerie. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. 68 When the male heir arrived to the age of twenty one, or the heir-female to that of sixteen, they might sue out their livery or ousterlemain. |