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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Registratio(u)n(e, -acione, n. [med. L. registration-, f. registrāre Register v., e.m.E. registration (once, 1611; then 1712). Cf. obs. F. registration (16th c.).] The act of registering or recording. b. An instance of this; an entry made to record something.Clause of registration, a clause in a deed providing for it to be properly registered.(1) ?1567 Acts II Table 4/1.
Anent the registracione of letteris of newe infeftment confirmacion etc. Ib. 33/2.
Registratioun of ane appunctuament betuix my lord governour and James Hammiltoun 1592 Ib. III 569/2.
Vpoun the bak of it … day and dait of the registratioun with the nowmer of the leiffis of the buik 1609 Stewart Mem. 121.
Incais of registratioun of thir presentis in our default 1611 Scrymgeour Invent. 53.
Decreit of registratioun a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 87.
Registratione 1685 Acts VIII 478/1.
The same deues as is payed for the registration of seasines 1692 Acts Sederunt ii 201.
The … acts appointing registers of sasines … has been much frustrated because these writs could not be insert in the register for a considerable time after the days appointed for registration thereof(2) 1681 Stair Inst. iv xxxiii §4.
The apparent heir … is not obliged to go to all other registers, not being able to know the clauses of registration, or in what courts the writs are to be registered 1661 Aberd. Council Lett. IV 136.
Ane bill … oblidging [the Earl Marshal] … to warrant [etc.] … with the ordinar clauses of registratione [pr. regratione] 1697 Dallas Stiles v 705.
Remember, that immediately before the clause of registration, ye insert the faculty reserved by the father to himselfb. 1617 Acts IV 546/1 (see Register n.1 2 a).
