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==Etymology==
==Etymology==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Vulgar [[Latin]] conquaesitus, alteration of Latin conquisitus, past participle of conquirere
[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Vulgar [[Latin]] conquaesitus, alteration of Latin conquisitus, past participle of conquirere
The [[original]] sense in med.L. and F. was ‘acquisition, esp. as the result of effort’; including getting by [[force]] of [[violence|arms]] as well as by other means. Hence two lines of [[development]]: first, with the feudal jurists ‘[[personal]] acquisition of estate, as [[opposed]] to inheritance’, without specific [[reference]] to the mode, whether by [[force]] of arms, by grant, or (in later times) by [[money]], called PURCHASE in [[English]] [[Law]]; secondly, ‘acquisition by [[force]] of arms, military conquest’. The latter of these is by far the earlier in [[English]], and has always been (with its [[transfer]]red uses) the only popular sense. The general sense of acquisition and esp. the legal sense as opposed to inheritance, is chiefly Scotch and prominent in Scotch law.]
The [[original]] sense in med.L. and F. was ‘acquisition, esp. as the result of effort’; including getting by [[force]] of [[violence|arms]] as well as by other means. Hence two lines of [[development]]: first, with the feudal jurists ‘[[personal]] acquisition of estate, as [[opposed]] to inheritance’, without specific [[reference]] to the mode, whether by [[force]] of arms, by grant, or (in later times) by [[money]], called PURCHASE in [[English]] [[Law]]; secondly, ‘acquisition by [[force]] of arms, military conquest’. The latter of these is by far the earlier in [[English]], and has always been (with its [[transfer]]red uses) the only popular sense. The general sense of acquisition and esp. the legal sense as opposed to inheritance, is chiefly Scotch and prominent in Scotch law.]
