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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Redeliver, v. Also: redelivir, -delyver, -delywer. P.p. also redeliurit. [e.m.E. redelyuer (1494).] tr. To return or restore (to a person) a. a thing, b. a prisoner or hostage.Also const. bak (agane).a. (1) 1567 Dundee B. Laws 372.
His maister sall redeliver and redound to the parentis … sa mekle of the said sowm promisit 1571 Canongate Ct. Bk. 329.
Gilbert Gichen to redeliver to Jonet Dun … ane kirtill of reid skarlet 1587 Conv. Burghs I 242.
They obleis thame … incais the samyn be … nocht redelyueritt to the lennaris thairof … [to] refound [etc.] 1627 Aberd. Council Lett. I 263.
That yow caus delyver … sex … demiculverene … to be redelyvered whene it sall pleis us to caus requyre the same 1639 Aberd. B. Rec. III 185.
Redelywer 1662 Galloway P. 22 March.
He … [is to] redelyver the land geir or the pryces theirof at the ishe of the tack(2) 1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I 141.
Incaice he failyeit, to redelivir to hir the said soume back agane 1622 Urie Baron Ct. 43.
[They] ar decernit to redelyuer back the saill of the boit bak to the laird 1640 Dumbarton B. Rec. 63.
Re-deliurit [pr. re-deluirit] 1663 Stitchill Baron Ct. 26, etc.b. 1580 Reg. Privy C. III 318.
Quhilk Robert, being deliverit … to him, wes alsua immediatlie thairefter redeliverit agane be him to Elizabeth Hay