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Quotation dates: 1400-1516, 1569-1633
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Intrusioun, -sion(e, n. Also: intrwssioun, -trusyowne, -trucion. [ME. intrucioun (1388), -trusioun (1433), -sion (1460), med. (Anglo-) L. intrusio.]
1. Forcible entrance or occupation of a country. c1420 Wynt. v. 2433.
Befor this Decyns had mad Off Pers his awne intrusyowne c1420 Ib. vii. 574.
Quhill Harald [etc.] … Off that state interruptyowne Mad be thare intrusyowne
2. Unwarranted entry into possession or occupation of property or authority. Cf. Intruse v. 14.. Acts I. 358/2.
Fresch defforsyng is alsmekill as fresch spoliacioun or a fresch intrusioun 1460 Peebles B. Rec. 137.
[He] said at that sessyn that Katryn Smail had tane was na sessyn lachful bot intrwssioun 1472 Lennox Mun. 91.
It may nocht be callit possessioun … bot ane nakit promys and febyll intrusioun 1516 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXVII. 174.
Maister Alexander Stewart, dene of Dunbar, … had intrusit himself in the said … preceptory and tane the intrusion tharof in his handis a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS xxii. 28.
Had thai … forthocht thair wrang intrusioun, … Thai had nocht cumit to sic confusioun a1633 Hope Major Pract. II. 94.
Ejectioun prescryvit sustained for intrusioun, repossessione, and for the ordinar dewties of the landis
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