A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1540-1626
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Extract, n. [med. L. extracta f.] ‘A copy, authenticated by the proper officer, of a deed, writing, or other entry’, etc. (Bell). Cf. Extrect n.1540 Acts II. 379/1.
Owre souerane lord … has ordanit his clerk of regestrj to mak ane auctenty extract and copy of all the saidis actis 1567 Reg. Privy C. I. 506.
That the same bandis is in the handis of Maistir Patrik Maxtoun, notar — at leist he hes the extract or copie thairof 1584 Acts III. 304/2.
The attentik extractes of the domes 1585 Misc. Spalding C. I. 3.
We pray yow … send the samen extract attentiklie subscriuit be the shireff clerk to ws 1622-6 Bisset II. 66/5.
Quhen any extractis of testamentis beis socht, the clerk in the extract to put in the dait of the testament
