A renunciation or abandonment by or upon oath. The oath by which any person holding office in England was formerly obliged to bind himself not to acknowledge any right in the Pretender to the throne of England; 1 Bla.Com. 368; 13 and 14 W. III, c. 6, repealed by 30 and 31 Vic. c. 59. It also denotes an oath abjuring certain doctrines of the church of Rome

In old English law. The depriving of a thing by the judgment of a court; a putting out of court; the same as forisjudicatio, forjudgment, forjudger. Co.Litt. 100a, b; Townsh. Pl. 49. A removal from court. Calvinus, Lex. Used to indicate an adverse decision in a writ of right: Thus, the land is said to be
abjudged from one of the parties and his heirs. 2 Poll. & Maitl. 62.

Quit of amercements. It originally signified a forfeiture or amercement, and is more properly mishering,
mishersing, or miskering, according to Spelman. It has since been termed a liberty of freedom, because, wherever this word is used in a grant, the persons to whom the grant is made have the forf•itures and amercements of all others, and are themselves free from the control of any within their fee. Termes de la Ley, 7.