owelty

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  1. Equality; in law, a kind of equality of service in subordinate tenures. Wharton. Also ovealty, ovelty.
  2. owelty of exchange, owelty of partition that which is required to be given by him who receives the greater value to him who receives the less, to compensate for the inequality.

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  1. Middle English *owelty, from Old French oelte, oeltet, uelte, ovellete, eiwaliteit, ivelte, etc., other forms of egalte, equalite, etc., equality: see equality.
 

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