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Definition of Resiled
1. resile [v] - See also: resile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resiled
Literary usage of Resiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir ...by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... resiled from, 608, '2. Distinction between an offer ami a promise as to ...
P. PACTA liberatoria cannot be resiled from, though merely verbal, 608, 3. ..."
2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1864)
"... came to be given by the bridegroom, he lost his earnest if he resiled ; and
it the bride resiled, she was obliged to restore it with as much more.— Lib. ..."
3. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review edited by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen (1890)
"... serched and assigned by them whether the same shalbe of the standarde and
fynes before resiled or no Upon payne to forfeit for every oz. of suche worke ..."
4. The Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678 by Edinburgh (Scotland). Justiciary Court, William George Scott-Moncrieff, John W. Weston (1905)
"... and resist for many days together, had gone to the Craigs with him, yet having
repented him upon the place, it was lawfull for him to have resiled, ..."
5. A Treatise on Leases: Explaining the Nature and Effect of the Contract of by Robert Bell (1820)
"An informal lease, defective in the statutory solemnities, on which no possession
has followed, may be resiled from by either party. ..."
6. Practical and Internal Evidence Against Catholicism: With Occasional by Joseph Blanco White (1835)
"... they wished to address them to the Pope himself, of whom they came to ask peace.
Mr. B. asserts that the Pope resiled from the address. Why ? ..."
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