CRAVEN

In old English law. A word ot' disgrace and obloquy, pronounced "on either champion, in the ancient trial by battle, proving recreant, i. e., yielding.- Glanville calls it "infestum et inverecundum verbum." His condemnation was amittere liber am legem, i. e., to. become infamous, and not to be accounted liber et legal is homo,.being supposed by the event to have been proved forsworn, and not flt to be put upon a: jury or. admitted as a witne . Wharton. OREAMEiR. A..foreign merchant, but generally taken for one who has a stall in a fair or market. Blount.. · cR£AMUS. - Lat. We crell.te.- One of:.:the words 'by wl'licl:i a e<irporatfon in England [s. 302]