affrayern.
/əˈfreɪə/, U.S. /əˈfreɪər/ Law. Now rare.
A person who commits an affray (affray n. 4).
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c1425 in Norfolk Archaeol. (1864) 6 225 Ȝe shal..trewe arestis maken of..affrayours, disturberis & setters [read letters] of þe kingis pees.
?1489 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1901) II. 319 I shall maynteyn the peax of our Lord the king and the affrayers there ayeinst..I shall do to be arest.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xvii. 141 Any man also may stay the Affrayors, until the storme of their heat be calmed.
1692 R. Gardiner Compl. Constable ii. 17 The Constable, without a Warrant, cannot arrest the Affrayers, except some person be dangerously hurt.
1716 W. Hawkins Treat. Pleas Crown I. i. lxiii. 137 If the Affrayers fly to a House..[the constable]..may break open the Doors to take them.
1790 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 1 363 It is lawful to part affrayers in the house of another man.
1835 Essex Standard 22 May The constables introduced to his worship Mr. Edward Newton as the affrayer.
1868 Bradford Observer 2 Jan. 3/4 He [sc. a special constable] may, to avoid a continuance of the breach of the peace,..arrest the affrayer.
1973 ICLR: Appeal Cases (Lexis) No. 964. 982 A citizen, anxious to exercise his old common law power to arrest an affrayer, would first have to be satisfied that there were at least two unlawful participants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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