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Home Dictionary Name: scotsScot
Scot. A fee payable under the Saxon kings for church services, in the name of Church Scot, light Scot, soul Scot (burials), and Rome Scot. See Halsb. Law of England, tit. 'Eccles. Law.'A payment; esp. a customary tax, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1348....
Scots
Scots, assessments by commissioners of sewers. See SCOT AND LOT VOTERS.Derived from or pertaining to Scotland. The term 'Scots' is universal in Scotland itself, and the term 'Scotch' is incorrect...
Scots
Of or pertaining to the Scotch Scotch Scottish as Scots law a pound Scots 1s 8d...
Scot and lot
Scot and lot [fr. sceat, Sax., part, and lot], a customary contribution laid upon all subjects according to their ability. Whoever were assessed to any contribution, though not by equal portions, were said to pay scot and lot....
Scot free
Free from payment of scot untaxed hence unhurt clear safe...
Bi-scot
Bi-scot, a fine of 2s. for not repairing banks, ditches, and causeways....
Church-scot
Church-scot, customary obligations paid to the parish priest; from which duties the religious sometimes purchased an exemption for themselves and their tenants....
Irish and Scots Courts' Judgments
Irish and Scots Courts' Judgments. As regards Northern Ireland and Scottish judgments, a judg-ment of a Superior Court of Northern Ireland or Scotland is enforceable after registration of a certificate thereof by the High Court of Justice in England, under the Judgments Extension Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 54 (preserved by Judic. Act, 1925, s. 224); and a judgment of an inferior Court is similarly enforceable by an English county Court, under the Inferior Courts Judgments Extension Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 31). Irish Free State judgments of the Courts may not be so enforced under the Judgments Extension Act, 1868, since references to 'Ireland' in any enactment passed before the establishment of the Irish Free State to the United Kingdom or to Ireland are in the application of that enactment in Great Britain or Northern Ireland to be construed as exclusive of the Irish Free State (see Stat. R. & O. 1923, No. 405, Art. 2). The Act of 1868 applies only to debt, damages and costs, but ...
Malt-shot or Malt-scot
Malt-shot or Malt-scot, a certain payment for making malt, Somner....
Rome-scot, or Rome-penny
Rome-scot, or Rome-penny, Peter-pence, which see, Cowel....
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