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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Localling, vbl. n. [Locall v.] The apportioning of liability for payment of a tax between the respective districts or places from which collectively it is due. —1701 Conv. Burghs IV. 315.
The conventione considering that if they would proceed to the localling of the ten pounds which was to have been payed by the unfree burghs of regalitie and barronie [etc.]

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