Assoil

Concept of “Assoil” [Assoilzie, in Scottish]”

Traditional meaning of assoil [assoilzie in scots, see also “assoiler”] in the French and Scottish law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) To acquit; to absolve; to deliver from excommunication.

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1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Assoil, Assoilzie, Sc, Assoiler”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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Meaning of Assoil

In this law dictionary, the legal term assoil is a kind of the Legal History class.

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