Re: fallire (was: a King's proverb)

Raymond Brown wrote:


> In fact in Old French the present tense of this verb was as follows:
> 1st sing.  _je fail_

Still surviving in English law as "jeofail", the term for an admitted
oversight or mistake in a legal proceeding.  The Statutes of Jeofail
permitted lawyers to correct their errors by instituting a new
proceeding as if the original proceeding had never happened.

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