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Quotation dates: 1501-1643
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Reclamatio(u)n, -cioun, n. Also: rea-. [L. reclāmātiōn- n., F. réclamation (1238 in Larousse), e.m.E. reclamation (1577); Reclame v.]
1. An appeal at law (against (fra) a decision.)Chiefly, and in earliest use, in various collocations with Appellacioun, Again-calling, Revocatioun, etc. in legal formulae.(1) 1501 Acts Lords of Council MS X 89b.
Lik as thai sall deliuer but revocacioun reclamacioun or appellacioun in tyme tocum 1531 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 48.
Jugis … chosin … but appellatioun or reaclamatioun in tyme tocum 1563–4 Reg. Privy C. I 264.
Quhilk decrete … thai … sall abide … but ony appellatioun, reclamatioun, or agane calling quhatsumevir 1575 Carrick Baillie Ct. 28 July.
To accept the said mater … and the pertiis suorne to abyde thairat without reclamatioun 1578 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 46.
To juge … quhais sentence … bayth the pairteis sall byde att fullfill and obserue without reclamatioun or appelatioun 1579 Reg. Privy C. III 169.
To obey thair declaratioun and jugement, without reclamatioun, appellatioun, or contradictioun 1580 Ib. 280.
But appellatioun, reclamatioun, or contradictioun 1593 Wemyss Chart. 217. 1643 Robertson Cullen Ch. Ann. 69.
All in one voyce but reclamation or gainsaying of any(2) c1575 Balfour Pract. 416.
Reclamatioun fra ane decrete arbitral aucht [etc.]
b. Only in Bell. Livy, rendering L. reclamantibus: An objection; protests, collectively. — 1533 Bell. Livy I 274/18.
The tribunis nochtwithstanding ony reclamatioun of consullis war continewit in thare office 1533 Ib. 281/1.
2. Other uses.
a. The action of claiming back. b. ? Erron. for Resignat(i)o(u)n(e n.a. 1622-6 Bisset II 232/20.
The maisteris of the schipis … may reclame the saidis twa thriddis allanerlie and command to mak the said reclamatioun within saidis twa monethis —b. a1578 Pitsc. I 395/21.
That it sould not be lesum to his successouris … to dispone ony of thir saidis landis frome the patriemoney of the croun ether be frie gift or reclamatioun or [etc.]
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