esplees

From Latin expletia, Old French espleit. Compare exploit.

esplees pl (plural only)

1. (law, UK, obsolete) The full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.
   • 1627, Henry Finch, Lavv: Or, A Discovrse Thereof, in Foure Bookes:

     in a writ of Eſchete, in a writ of right ſur diſclaimer, and ſuch like, which are founded vpon the ſeigniory, and not vpon any ſeiſin of the land it ſelfe, no eſplees ſhall be alledged

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

• sleepes