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Quotation dates: 1672-1694
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Onerosity, n. [MF. onérosité(15th c. in Godef.), f. as Oner(o)us a.] (Only in legal use.) The fact or condition of being onerous, the fact of involving, or being in return for, payment. — 1672 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II. 154.
The onerosity of the son's contract could only be in quantum it were onerous 1676 Ib. III. 81.
He was not in use to give away such casualties as reversions in great to strangers, without any motive or onerosity 1680 Fountainhall Decis. I. 76. 1681 Ib. 125.
The onerosity of the cause 1694 Ib. 642.
They could be obliged to instruct either his solvency or the onerosity of their several rights
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