Act |
Formal decision |
Addettit |
Indebted, owing |
Alienate |
Sell |
Allenarly |
Only |
Anent |
Referring to |
Annual Rent |
Interest on money lent |
Assignation |
Assigning of rights |
Assize |
Jury;
articles subject to a regulation or tax |
Assoilzie |
Acquit |
Astrict |
Tie
lands to a Mill |
Attour |
Besides |
Avail |
Value |
Awand |
Owing |
Bailliary |
Office or authority of a Baillie |
Baillie |
An
official in a Burgh; an officer in a Barony |
Bairn’s pairt |
Part
of a parents moveable estate to which children are entitled |
Barony |
Lands
of a Baron, held from the Crown with certain rights of
jurisdiction |
Baxter |
Baker |
Be |
By |
Beltane |
Whitsunday – 15th May |
Biggin |
Building |
Bear |
Barley |
Blanche Ferme |
Nominal rent |
Boll |
Measure of grain |
Books of Adjournal |
Records of the Justiciary Court |
Bond |
Written legal agreement to repay money |
Bot |
without |
Boxmaster |
Treasurer |
Burgess |
A
Freeman of a Burgh |
Cautioner |
One
acting as surety |
Cain or Kain |
Rent
paid in kind |
Charter |
Deed
granted by a Superior |
Clachan |
Small
settlement |
Commonty |
Common pasture land |
Compear |
Appear in an action |
Compt |
Account |
Conjunctly and Severally |
Jointly and by each one, obligation whereby each party is liable |
Cordiner |
Shoemaker |
Cottar |
One
holding land in return for labour service |
Deacon |
Leader of a Trade Guild |
Decern |
To
decide, decree |
Decreet |
Decision or judgement |
Dempster |
Officer pronouncing judgement |
Depone |
To
give evidence |
Deposition |
Evidence given on oath |
Diet |
Date
for Court hearing |
Dispone |
Convey land |
Disposition |
Deed
by which property is conveyed to another |
Eik |
Codicil to a Will |
Evident |
Document establishing legal title |
Factory |
Deed
empowering one to act for another |
Farmtoun |
Settlement based round a farm |
Fee |
Full
right of property (as against liferent); payment for service |
Feu |
Feudal holding |
Feu ferme |
Rent
due under feu charter |
Feuar, Fiar |
One
who holds a fee (not a tenant) |
Fiars |
Price fixed for grain each year in
each county on which stipends were calculated |
Forestall |
To buy goods on the way to market |
Fulzie |
Dung |
Gear |
Moveable goods |
German |
Full
(of a brother or sister, occasionally a cousin) |
Glebe |
Land allocated to a Minister of a
parish |
Grassum |
Single payment made on entry to a lease or Feu (or renewal) |
Hairst |
Harvest |
Handfast |
To be
betrothed |
Heritable Property |
Immoveable; usually land, whether owned or leased |
Heritor |
Landowner— usually
referring to one who contributed to the upkeep of the Church
|
Hind |
Ploughman
|
Horning |
Penal
diligence for a debt; an order for the debtor to pay |
Husbandland |
Holding of a Husbandman (originally 26 Scots acres) |
Indweller |
Inhabitant of a town which was not a burgh, or a resident in a
burgh who was not a
Burgess |
Infeft |
To
put a person in heritable possession of land |
Inhibition |
A
writ forbidding a debtor from selling or burdening his property
before claims of a creditor are settled |
Inquest |
A
body of people summoned to examine such matters as a Service of
Heirs |
Instrument |
A
legal document give on completion of a legal act |
Intromit |
Deal
with in writing; Intromitters – those who intromit |
Inventar |
Inventory of moveable property |
Jus
mariti |
A
husband’s right to his wife’s moveables |
Jus
relecti |
A
widow’s right to one third or one half of her husband’s property
on his death |
Kindly
tenant |
Holders of land having a kind of heritable right to them |
Kist |
Chest |
Kye |
Cows |
Lade |
Mill
stream |
Lammas |
1st
August |
Landward |
Part
of a parish which is outwith the town |
Latterwill |
A
will |
Lead |
To transport |
Letters |
Court writ or warrant |
Liferent |
Property held during a person’s lifetime only |
Litster |
Dyer |
Lousit |
Released |
Mail |
Rent |
Mailing |
Land for which rent is paid |
Mains |
Home farm on an Estate |
Martinmas |
11th November – term day |
Merk |
Old Scots silver coin worth 13/4d Scots (about 1/2d sterling) |
Merkland |
Measure of land for which duty paid was one merk |
Minor |
Usually a person between 12 and 21 |
Mortcloth |
Cloth used to cover a coffin |
Moveable estate |
Personal effects and property (not land) |
Muir |
Hill pasture |
Multures |
Grain given to the Miller of a Mill to which a person was bound |
Mutchkin |
A liquid measure |
Nolt |
Cattle |
Notary |
One licensed to record legal transactions |
Novadamus |
Charter altering the terms of a previous charter |
Nowt |
Cattle (Nolt) |
Obligation |
Legal agreement to pay a sum of money |
Oxgang |
Measure of land |
Oy |
Grandchild |
Panel |
Prisoner |
Paroch, Parochine |
Parish |
Peck |
Measure of corn or oats |
Pendicle |
Small piece of ground |
Pertinents (as in parts, pertinents & pendicles) |
Everything making up
parts of lands conveyed
|
Piece
(the) |
each |
Plenishings |
Furnishings |
Ploughgate |
Eight oxgangs of land |
Poind (Poynd) |
To seize and sell goods of a debtor |
Poors Box |
Parish fund for the poor |
Portioner |
Owner of a small piece of land |
Precept |
Warrant or authority granted by superior for owner or heir’s infeftment |
Precept
(of Clare Constat) |
Document recognising the claim of an heir to inherit and be
infeft |
Precognition |
Statement of witness (taken before the proceedings) |
Premises |
Term (in a document) |
Premonition |
Official warning |
Pro Indiviso |
Undivided |
Process |
Legal documents relating to all steps in a case |
Protest |
Legal demand for payment of debt |
Pupil |
Children up to 12 (girls) and 14 (boys) |
Quha |
Who |
Quheat |
Wheat |
Quhilk |
Which |
Quhyt |
Free, clear |
Quad
Sacra |
Parish disjoined for ecclesiastical purposes only |
Quot |
Tax on estate due to Commissaries (one twentieth) |
Ratification |
Confirmation |
Relict |
Widow |
Resignation |
Vassal gives up estate to superior |
Retour |
Extract of Chancery of service of an heir to an ancestor |
Reversion |
Obligation by creditor under which the debtor may redeem
estate given as security for a loan (on repayment) |
Roods |
Measure of land |
Run-Rig |
System of agriculture Run common pasture; Rig Strip of
cultivated land |
Sasine |
Act giving legal possession of land (infeftment) |
Sederunt |
Meeting; minutes listing those present |
Sequestration |
Bankruptcy |
Set (t) |
Let |
Siclike |
Likewise |
Soume |
Sum |
Statute labour |
So many days work on roads demanded from tenants, cottars
and labourers |
Steading |
Farm buildings, originally the farm itself |
Stent |
Assessment, tax |
Sucken |
Obligation to use a certain mill |
Summa |
Total |
Superior |
One who makes a grant of land to
another who is then his vassal and pays Feu duty |
Tack |
Lease |
Tailzie |
Entail |
Teind |
Tenth part of produce paid to the Church |
Term |
Date when interest or rent was payable |
Thirlage |
Binding of a tenant to grind his grain at a particular mill |
Tocher |
Dowry |
Toun |
Settlement |
Tutor |
Guardian of children (see pupils) |
Umquhile |
Deceased |
Uterine |
Having the same mother (of a half-brother or sister) |
Vassal |
One who holds land from a superior under feudal law |
Vest |
To endow |
Victuall |
Food, provisions |
Wadset |
Pledge of lands (conveyed by sasine) but with right of recovery
on repayment of money borrowed |
Ward |
Guardianship of an infant heir with control of lands |
Warrandice |
Guarantee that right conveyed will be effected |
Warrant |
Original document of which a copy is made for a register |
Warning |
Formal notice to a tenant to remove within 40 days |
Waulk Mill |
Fulling mill |
Webster |
Weaver |
Whitsunday |
15th May, - term day |
Winning |
Digging up (of peats) |
Wright |
Carpenter |
Writer |
LawyerA |
Yrto |
Thereto |
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