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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Incum, v. [Early ME. income, OE. incuman.] intr. To come in, in contextual senses. —1443 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 269.
The quhilk assise well avysit incame and deliverit [its decision] 1556 Prot. Bk. G. Grote 15.
[The profits were to] incum [yearly to them] 1581 Inverness B. Rec. I. 289.
Quhilkis [heirs] failȝeing, [the title to be] incummand to the narrest of his blude a1578 Pitsc. (1814) I. 236.
The king … has maid his oath … that he schould not incum [v.r. cum] in judgment … in no actioun, quhair he is pairtie himself
