† darreinadj.
Old Law.
Last, ultimate, final; = dernier adj. darrein presentment: the last presentation to an ecclesiastical benefice (as a proof of the right to present): see quot. 1760. darrein resort: = dernier ressort.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > [adjective] > last in order
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1292 Britton iv. i De assise de Dreyn Present.
1292 Britton iv. xii. §5 Si le derreyn verdit soit contrarie al premer.]
1555 Act 1 Mary 2nd Sess. c. 5 Any writ of assise of darren presentment.
1672 W. de Britaine Interest Eng. in War with Holland 9 War is the darrein resort of every wise and good Prince.
1760 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 26 Darrein presentment is a writ which lieth, where a man or his ancestor hath presented a clerk to a church, and afterwards (the church becoming void by the death of the said clerk or otherwise) a stranger presenteth his clerk to the same church, in disturbance of him who had last..presented.
1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 27 §36 And be it further enacted, That no..Writ of Assize of novel disseisin..Darrein-presentment..or Mort d'ancestor..shall be brought after the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. xiii. 617 The great charter of John..retains the three recognitions of Novel disseisin, Mort d'ancester, and Darrein presentment.
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