| action | law-suit, legal proceeding, litigation |
| action | course of action, enterprise; or: trial, legal process |
| action-taking | taking legal action, litigious |
| affeered | [legal] assured, confirmed, settled |
| allow | bestow, legally assign |
| attorney general | legally appointed deputy |
| attorneyship | legal practices, arrangement between lawyers |
| band | bond, promissory note, legal deed requiring payment |
| case | [legal] in relation to this particular case |
| cause | court case, legal action, matter before the court |
| challenge | legal objection |
| conveyance | [legal] document transferring property |
| copy | [legal] type of tenure, copyhold; also: process of replication |
| Coram | malapropism for ‘quorum’ [part of a legal formula for installing the number of justices needed to constitute a bench] |
| court-hand | legal style of handwriting |
| covenant | contract, legal agreement, compact |
| crack | clip [of gold illegally taken from a coin] |
| crooked | false, wrongful, illegal |
| crown | add regal status to, dignify |
| customed | legally sanctioned, established by custom |
| direct | following normal legal procedure; or: immediate |
| egal, egall | equal, matched, equivalent |
| egally | equally, evenly, commensurately |
| egress and regress | [legal] right of leaving and return, freedom to come and go |
| engross | write out in proper legal form |
| enrol | record, register, legally enter |
| enrolled | recorded, registered, legally entered |
| fee-farm | [legal] state of tenure granted in perpetuity |
| fine | [legal] agreement to transfer land possession |
| fine | [legal] fee, contracted amount |
| free | direct, free from legal constraint |
| indenture | (plural) [legal] joint agreement, articles of agreement |
| indictment | legal document containing a charge |
| interest | property, share, legal right |
| item | [legal] particular point |
| law | in court, with legal proceedings |
| liable | legally belonging, in her ownership |
| liable | subject, legally bound |
| liberty | plays not written according to traditional rules of drama; also: district not subject to a sheriff's legal order [i.e. more suitable for theatres] |
| majestical | majestic, regal, kingly |
| manner | [legal] thing stolen, stolen goods |
| manner | [legal] act, work, deed |
| mark | (plural) insignia, regalia |
| nonage | minority, period of legal infancy |
| objected | [legal sense] urged as an objection, brought forward in argument |
| obligation | bond, agreement, legal document |
| pray in aid | [legal] claim the assistance of someone who has a shared interest in a defence action |
| prescription | legal claim founded on long use |
| process | proper legal procedure |
| recovery | [legal] procedure for transferring property into full ownership |
| rescue | [legal] forced removal from custody |
| royalty | regal quality, majestic character, lordliness |
| seize (upon) | [legal] take possession of, take hold of |
| statute | bond securing a debt with the debtor's land; legal security |
| sterling | genuine, real, legal |
| surety | person undertaking a legal responsibility in relation to another, guarantor |
| tenure | [legal] condition for holding property |
| tenure | [legal] statement, account, summary |
| term | any of four periods of activity within the legal year [Michaelmas, Hilary, Easter, Trinity] |
| title | [legal] right, claim, entitlement |
| uncurrent | unacceptable, not legally current, worthless |
| unkinglike | not regal, not befitting a king |
| unsealed | lacking formal confirmation, without legal ratification |
| untitled | with no right to rule, illegal |
| voucher | [legal] warrantor of someone's right to property |
| warrant | illegal, unlawful, banned |
| waste | [legal] damage to property by a tenant |
| wit | [legal] that is to say |
| writ | plays written according to traditional rules of drama; also: a district of the city subject to a sheriff's legal order [i.e. less suitable for theatres] |