vicontiel

From Anglo-Norman vicontiel, from Middle French visconte (“viscount”) + -iel. Equivalent to viscount +‎ -ial.

• IPA^(key): /vaɪ.kɑn.ti.əl/

vicontiel (not comparable)

1. (law, UK, obsolete) Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a county.

   Synonym: viscomital

   Vicontiel writs were those that were triable in the sheriff, or county, court.

   • 1798, Henry Gwillim, A New Abridgment of the Law in Seven Volumes: 6: 5th edition, page 554:

     It is in the election of the party injured by a trespass, to sue out a writ of trespass that is returnable, or one that is not. The latter writ is called a vicontiel writ; because the matter therein complained of is to be determined before the sheriff ...

• “vicontiel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.