Tresayle
Tresayle (tres"āl`) , noun
[French trisaieul, from Latin tris, tres, three + French aieul grandfather. Compare Besaiel, and see Ayle.]
A grandfather's grandfather. [Obsolete]
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Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law) , a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. — Mozley & W