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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1575-1661
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Comprisit, Comprysit, ppl. a. Also: comprysed, -prised. [f. Comprise v.] Subjected to distraint. c1575 Balfour Pract. 147.
Redemptioun of comprisit landis may be callit and persewit be ane bill, or supplicatioun … be ressoun that comprysit landis expiris and prescryvis sevin ȝeiris being bypast 1622-6 Bisset I. 250/29.
To gif seasing to the creditour … of the comprysed landis 1621 Acts IV. 609/2.
That the compryser sall haue no farder right to the mailles, fermes, and dewties of the comprysit landis 1661 Decis. Lords G. 11.
A compriser, … when he enters to the debitors lands, he ought … to make use of the comprised lands
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