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Quotation dates: 1698
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Edictal, a. [Late L. ēdictālis.] Of a citation: Made by edict or public proclamation. ‘A citation which was formerly pub-. lished at the market-cross of Edinburgh, and the pier and shore of Leith, or at the head burgh of the county where the party so cited had his residence’ (Bell). — 1698 Fergusson Reports (1817) 251.
The pursuer … convened him in the Consistorial Courtat Edinburgh by edictal citation
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