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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Suspendar, -er, n. [e.m.E. suspender (once, 1625) one who suspends his judgment; Suspend v.]
1. One who puts a stop to something, or suspends it temporarily.1524 Aberd. B. Rec. I 108.
The suspendaris of the said Kirk being charply persewit for the said expensis and … quhow soone … it be fund quha was the cause of the said kirkis suspending [sc. of services]
2. One who raises a bill of suspension.1622-6 Bisset I 259/26.
For payment to the … collectour of sic penaltie as they sall impoise upon the suspender for his fraudfull protracting of the pley and frustrating his adverser of the dew executioun of his decreit a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 94.
The assigney to the reversione … had obtained ane decreit of redemptione against the suspendar for not compeirance 1642 Durie Decis. 893.
The reason was rejected, and the bond sustained, for the charger had hazarded his own life, in helping to put the suspender to liberty, and fled away with him 1650 Acts Sederunt ii 63.
The Lords declairis, that whair the groundis of the chairges are decreittis before inferior judges, the suspender, in that case, is onlie heirby haldin either to produce the decreitt, or ane instrument of refusall theirof 1665 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 405.
Threats made by the charger to pull down the suspender's house, to sell the timber thereof to make penny 1665 Decis. Lords G. 90.
James Cuninghame charges Henry Denniston for payment of a certain sum due to him by bond, who suspends upon this reason that the said James being curator to the children of the deceast William Wilson, the suspender stands cautioner for him in the act of curatory 1669 Aberd. Council Lett. IV 434.
The chairgers hes actione of reductione intentit and depending against any pretendit gift made in favor of the suspenders 1672 Acts VIII 84/2.
The suspendar … at the calling of the cause, if he have keiped vp the verifications, and offer then to produce the same, … the ordinary shall give decreit 1677 Aberd. Council Lett. VI 129.
Anent the persons suspenders of the taxatione of the brughe … to prove what wes the estate and interest the suspenders hade by tenements of land or otherways subjectit to stent 1679 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 253.
[He] delivered the bond, sealed in a paper … and gave the discharge, sealed also in a piece paper, to the suspender 1681 Stair Inst. iv lii § 35.
In all suspensions there is a day assigned for the suspender to cite the charger 1688 Culross II 183.
Nor can thir suspenders [sc. girdle-makers of Valleyfield], on the other hand, lose anie thing, for they are blacksmiths to their own trade, and were not bred to this
