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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1514-1633, 1687-1688
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Schound, S(c)hownd, n. Also: shund, scheund, schewnd; scheind; schonit, -eth; schone, scuin. [ON sjaund the seventh day, specif., a gathering, partly festal in nature, held on the seventh day after a death, at which the debts of the deceased were paid and his affairs settled, med. L. septimus (dies). Cf. Norw. dial. sjaund, sjund funeral feast.] In Orkney and Shetland: The formal legal division of the property of a dead person. See also Arff(e n.1514 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I 256.
Schir William and Alexandir to be at the arff house and chemois … to mak a lauchfull schone and ayrskifft as the law levis 1546 Goudie Shetl. Antiq. 144.
Ane scuin haldin that daye at Howess be ane honorabill man Olave Sinclayr … heyd fold of Zetland and [etc.] … and … Margrat and hyr brother Thorral … agreyt of all land [etc.] … [and] all maner of heryrstagye and ayrschipe that [they] had call or clayme to 1558 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I 80.
We beand convenit … to mak ane rycht schonit compt raknyng and equaill devisione of the landis guidis and geir … perteining to vmquhile William Tullocht 1576 Orkney Oppress. 58.
The underfowde … for making of the divisioun of the said airschip, callit ane scheind, gat for his fee … nyne schilling Dense. … But now [the laird] … hes dischargit the underfowdis of thair offices … the laird compellit him [supra Laurence of Air] to pay ane ox pryce … for his scheind fee 1597 Rec. Earld. Orkney 321.
Be arffe, schound, or devisioun, conforme to the lawis and practique of the cuntreyth of Orknay 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 32.
Quhat day the said Thomas and all utheris quha ar obleist to mak thair schowndis eftir thair wyffis and utheris clameand thair portionis of landis and movablis quhilk is appoyntit to be done within the space of ane moneth 1604 Ib. 126.
[The] fold of Yell … accusit for usurpatioun of the kingis auctoritie in halding of schewndis and airffis without ony commissioun 1604 Ib. 147.
Scheundis
b. attrib. and comb.Schound bill, a deed recording the division made and decisions taken in a schound (appar. introduced to conform local procedures to those of the breve of divisioun, see Divisioun n. 1 c).Schound ox, cf. quot. 1576 in a above.(1) 1558 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I 81.
Landis quhilkis come … to … Margaret Tullocht one the rycht schoneth day eftir the deceise of … thair fader(2) 1592 Orkney Oppress. 102.
The entrie of the aires followed be ane breiff of divisioun, callit in Denmark and Norroway ane shownd bill, and is putt in executioun be the sheriff and his deputis 1633 (1711) Sibbald's Orkn. & Shetl. 81.
When any of the parents or masters of the families died, the minister, the foude, and some honest men, conveened at the airv-house, the place of their meeting, where by a shundbill or decreet they ordered the youngest to have the dwelling house, and the rest, both of moveables and heretage, was divided a1688 Wallace Orkney (1693) 93.
Shundbil, the decreet past by the foud(3) 1576 Orkney Oppress. 58 (see a above).
Scheind fee 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 54.
Ane schound ox for William Hammer 1604 Ib. 128.
Schewnd ox
