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Outquiting, -quyting, -quittin(g, vbl. n. Also: oute-, ouit-, owt- and -quiteing, -quyteing, -quytine, -qwiting, -qwyting, -yng, (-qywting), -quittyn, -qwitt-, -quytt-, -qwytt-, -queyting and (owquiytting). Redemption of a. heritage or b. movables, from attachment or pawn. c. ? Buying exemption from (of).a. (a) 1466 Acta Aud. 4/2.
And resaving of the soume of mone fra the saide Johne … for out quiting of the said annuel
1474 Ib. 33/2.
A some of mone for the redemption & outquiting of the landis of Lechland
1496–7 Acta Conc. II. 65.
Owtqwiting
1498 Ib. 233.
Owtquiting
1499–1500 Ib. 362; etc.
Owtqwiting
1509 Prot. Bk. J. Foular 113.
That the terme of the outquiting of the lands … is nocht quhil Candilmes cum a yer
1512 Grey Friars 30.
Upoun the redemyng, lousing and outquiting of thir annuale rentis
1564 Glasgow Prot. III. 49.
The redemptioune and outquiting fra the saidis Nyniane of the half of ane tenement
1596 Douglas Bequest 7 June.
Outquiteing
(b) 1482 Acta Aud. 104/1.
xx li. of the rest of a mare sovme of the redeming and owtquyting of the landis [etc.]
1482–3 Acta Conc. II. cxii.
For redemption and outquyting of ane annuale of a reversion
1501 Ib. III. 68.
For the redemyng and outqywting [sic in pr.] fra the sade Georg of the landis of [etc.]
1546 Fam. Innes 115. 1555 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I. 68.
Because thair is diuers and sindrie reuersiounis maid and geuin for redemption and outquyting of landis beirand … gold and siluer
1557 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I. 263.
Outquyting
c1575 Balfour Pract. 207. 1588 Glasgow Chart. II. 614. 1620 Crim. Trials III. 486.
Outquyteing
(c) 1488–9 Prot. Bk. J. Young II. 35.
Outquitting
1491 Acta Conc. I. 221/1.
Outqwitting
1494 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II. 393. 1511 Prot. Bk. J. Foular I. 134. 1526 Reg. Panmure II. 302.
Outquittyn
1590 Ayr Chart. 115. 1603 Old Ross-shire I. 171.(d) 1488 Acta Conc. I. 96/1.
Out qwytting
1539 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 95.
To be gevin for outquytting of thair buthis being wedsett
1642 Irvine Mun. II. 54.(e) 1551 Prot. Bk. M. Carruthers 51.
[The last part payment of the redemption and] owquiytting [of a half of the lands of Mekle Cowloch]
(f) 1591 Lennox Mun. 332.
Ouitqueyting
b. 1511 Treas. Acc. IV. 174.
For outquitting of ane silvir challice
Ib. 310. 1540 Ib. VII. 393.
Outequiting
1573 Prot. Bk. J. Harlaw 205 b.
Redemptioun and outquitting fra thame of … ane half of thrie chalderis victuale
c. 1519 Peebles B. Rec. I. 49.
Quhilk wes thair stent of Peblis for the taxacione of the owtquytine of the custumis of Deip

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