Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Equality; in law, a kind of equality of service in subordinate tenures. Also ovealty, ovelty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Law) Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty.

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  • noun law equality

Etymologies

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Old French

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