Mise

[mi:z]

Definition

(n.) The issue in a writ of right.

(n.) Expense; cost; disbursement.

(n.) A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom.

Inputed by Leslie

Definition

n. expenditure outlay: a gift of money to a superior prince &c.: in a writ of right a traverse by which both parties put the cause directly upon the question as to which had the better right: the adjustment of a dispute by arbitration and compromise as the 'Mise of Lewes' in 1264.

Edited by Debra