单词 | jeofail |
释义 | jeofailn. a. Law. A mistake or oversight in pleading or other legal proceeding; also, an acknowledgement of such error. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > mistake or variation in pleading miskenninglOE misknowingc1503 mispleading1531 jeofail1541 departure1548 departer1628 1541 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 30 Thissues haue ben misioyned and a Ieofall [orig. draft Yeofaile]. 1541 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 30 Any myspleading lacke of colour insufficient pleading or ieofaile notwithstanding. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 465 The Writ of Error..was heretofore vsuall to prolong suits in Law, before the Statute of Ieofaile was made, meaning in good French I'ay failly. 1624 Act 21 Jas. I c. 13 An Act for the further reformation of Jeofails. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxv. 407 Mistakes are also effectually helped by the statutes of amendment and jeofails: so called, because when a pleader perceives any slip in the form of his proceedings, and acknowledges such error (jeo faile) he is at liberty by those statutes to amend it. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 137 Here we see—alas!—a jeofail: a jeofail in the shape of a misrecital. 1879 Act 42 & 43 Vict. c. 59 Sched. ii, 32 Hen. VIII. c. 30 Mispleading Jeofayles, &c. 1883 Act 46 & 47 Vict. c. 49 §4 The enactments mentioned in Part II of the schedule to the Civil Procedure Acts, Repeal Act, 1879, are hereby repealed.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [noun] fallOE confusionc1290 discomfiturea1400 castc1400 overthrowc1440 confoundinga1450 jeofail1546 prostitution1567 lurch1584 worsting1607 unhorsing1608 supplantation1617 defeat1676 overset1789 punishment1811 overthrowal1862 beating1883 unhorsement1884 whoop-ass1974 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] misnimming?c1225 errora1340 defaulta1387 balkc1430 fault1523 jeofail1546 errat1548 trip1548 naught1557 missa1568 missinga1568 slide1570 snappera1572 amiss1576 mistaking1579 misprize1590 mistake1600 berry-block1603 solecism1603 fallibility1608 stumblea1612 blota1657 slur1662 incorrectnessa1771 bumble1823 skew1869 (to make) a false step1875 slip-up1909 ricket1958 bad1981 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. x. sig. Liv Pouertee brought that ioye to ioefayle. 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. xi. 111 The Acts of Dioclesian Maxim..You doe as good as passe by..which is greater Jeofaile then our Maximilian. 1645 J. Goodwin Innocency & Truth Triumphing 22 I conceive it to be a jeofaile in Theologie, a mistake in stead of a truth. 1828 Edinb. Rev. 48 511 These flaws and jeofails are not nature's doings, but our own. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > fail to observe [verb (intransitive)] to make (hold, pay, keep, yield or break) a vowc1290 to break dayc1300 faithc1410 swerve1527 to break touch1594 jeofail1599 recant1599 recede1648 discede1650 renege1651 shab1699 shaffle1781 weasel1956 1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 27 The Lords..sent him word, that if hee did ieofaile with them, and not come according to appointment, they would chuse another King. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1541 |
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