- licentia surgendi
- /bsensh(iy)a ssrjenday/In old English practice, license to arise; permission given by the court to a tenant in a real action, who had cast an essoin de malo lecti, to arise out of his bed.Also, the writ thereupon. If the demandant can show that the tenant was seen abroad before leave of court, and before being viewed by the knights appointed by the court for that purpose, such tenant shall be taken to be deceitfully essoined, and to have made default
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.