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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Liquidatio(u)n, n. [MF. liquidation (1416), appar. = valuation, med.L. liquidatio (1478, Baxter & Johnson) making clear, explaining.]
Judicial valuation or ascertainment of the exact amount of a debt, rent or other due payment. b. The authoritative assessment of the monetary equivalent of a payment in kind or of a service.1559 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I. 159.
Thairon this inconvenient suld cum that … without evictioun or liquidatioun [men] mycht poynd at thair awin hand 1569 Canongate Ct. Bk. 36.
The libellit precept rasit at the instance of Gilbert Balfour aganis the said Oliver anent liquidatioun of the price of xx chalderis victuall acclamit be the said Gilbert fra him 1571 Reg. Privy C. II. 99.
And as yit the terme of payment of thair fermis is not cum quhill Candilmes nix to cum, nor liquidatioun maid thairof as aucht to be befoir a juge 1573 Dunferm. B. Rec. II. 2.
Anent the making of liquidatioun of prices of beir malt and maill of the lxxii ȝeiris crope c1575 Balfour Pract. 41, 376. 1579 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. I. 100.
The quhilk day anent the liquidatioun of tua yowes tua lambes and tua hoggis 1601 Ib. 406.
The quhilk day the saidis bailȝeis be thair decreit of liquidatioun decernis Johnne Jamesoun … to pey to Andro Heuchane for thre boitfull of stanes he sould haif carryit to him … v lib. viij s. … ilk boitfull to xxxvj s. with ij s. expenses 1613–14 Ayr B. Acc. 56.
The townis part … eftir the liquidatioun of thir ferris and cotes extendis the said yeir to the sowme of ijc lxx li. 1622-6 Bisset I. 245/2. 1643 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 13. 1673 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS. [2 July].
Decerns John Edȝar smith to pay to James Coastin four pecks beir and ane auchlet of meill cropt 1672 conforme to the liquidatioune of the said cropt 1675 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 252.
Two persones … to whom the liquidation of the damnage [to the tacksmen] is to be referred to there discretione
c. The assessment of the equivalent sum of one currency payable for a debt incurred in another.1577–8 Reg. Privy C. II. 670.
I Williame Dod Inglisman … grantis me to have ressavit fra Archibald Mure … the sowme of ane thousand markis … money of … Scotland as for the just liquidatioun and pryce of the sowme of twa hundrith pund sterling
