A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1491-1556
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Cassat(e, Cassait, p.p. [e.m.E. cassat (1519), cassate, L. cassātus, p.p. of cassāre.] Cassed, made void.1491 Ayr Fr. Preach. Chart. 65.
I grant that the charter be cassat, annulit, and exspirit in the self 1503 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 662.
As at mare lenth is contenit in the saide decrete retretit, cassat, adnullit, & decernit of nane avale force nor effect 1508 Reg. Privy S. I. 253/1.
All sic alienatiouns … to be cassate, adnullate and of nane avail 1542 Acts II. 416/1.
To here and se the samin retretit, rescindit, cassait and annullit 1556 Protocol Book of T. Dalrymple 43.
The said pretendit assignacioun … is null & na availe and aucht to be nullit, cassat and retretit