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stabilitio

stabilitio [LL] 1 establishment, (act of) strengthening, stabilizing. b constancy, stability. exhinc successit regni sui ~o Wycl. Ver. III 232; necesse est post ~onem et dotacionem ecclesie quod ‥ Id. Versut. 98; 1453 in confirmacionem, corroboracionem, et ~onem earundem treugarum fecimus RScot 63b; s1454 faciatis ‥ circa ipsum quicquid vos sciveritis facere pro meliori ~one conversioneque morum suorum Reg. Whet. I 145; de fundatione, ordinatione, et ~one libere capelle Entries 102b.  b ‘sepe propositum est’ [Rom. i 13]: voluntatis ~o R. Melun Paul. 21. 2 besetting of a wood with men, hounds, nets, etc. during a hunt to prevent the escape of the game, stably, (payment for) the right to do so or to the profits therefrom, (also transf. w. ref. to the means for doing so) buck-stall. qui monitus ad ~onem venationis non ibat l solidos regi emendabat DB I 56va; quando rex venatui instabat de unaquaque domo per consuetudinem ibat unus homo ad ~onem in silva DB I 179ra; 1290 venacionem cepit et estabulaciones fecit ad saltatoria ipsius episcopi, ne bestie ibidem intrare possent RParl I 25b.

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