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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Redemabil(l, adj. Also: -demable, -deimable, -abell, -deemable, -deamable, -dimable. [Redem(e v.; cf. e.m.E. redeemable (Cotgrave).] Capable of being redeemed, in senses 2 and 5 of Redem(e v. a. Of property: Capable of being repurchased or recovered. b. Of sin: Capable of being atoned for (by payment).a. 1527 Prot. Bk. J. Foular III 246.
The said land to be redeimable and return agane to the said Johne 1551 Acts II 490/2.
It is statute … that quhether the annuell be redemabill or vnredemabill [etc.] 1579 Ayr & Gall. Coll. VI 155.
[The said tenement of land … redeemable for 100 merks] 15.. Reg. Panmure I xxxi.
[The] infeftment of the milne … redemabil vpon the hwnder markes for his part 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. ii 105 (Table).
Redemable 1611 Ayr Chart. 143.
Four … buithis under the tolbuyth … annaliit and wodsett … redemabill and under reversioun c1620 Sutherland Bk. II 347.
The lands that Walter Innes … hes sold … ar redimable to yow for a thousand marks the dawigh 1630 Aberd. Council Lett. I 327.
[Lands] redemabill … be peyment … off … ten thowsand marks Scottis moneyis a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 88.
All adjudications ar redeemable fra the partie obtainer therof be any co-creditor of the defunct debitor 1635 Laing MSS I 195.
This we have done by way of morgadge redeimable to your majestie 1661 Acts VII 318/1.
All compriseings deduced since January 1652 yeers and wherof the legalls are expyred … shall be redeemable [etc.] 1668 Lamont Diary 204.
Redeimabell 1681 Stair Inst. ii iii § 22.
Redeemable rights are not so secure, because they may be evacuated by order of redemption Ib. iv iii §2.
That they be not perpetually redeemable or require a new legalb. 1650 Inverurie 314.
That … no mans publick confessing of sin … be sould for money, or be redeamable that way