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Tailȝeit, ppl. adj. Also: tailyeit, -ȝ(i)ed, taylyied, tayllid, talyeit, -ȝied. [Tailȝ(i)e v.] a. Listed in an entailment; entailed. b. Arranged, appointed, fixed. c. Cut, shaped. d. Of coin: Specified as being of a particular sort. [f. L. tālis.]a. 1428 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 461.
Payand yerly the said Jonet and the persounis befor tailyeit all chargis of the said land a1586 Lindsay MS 56.
Ony man of that realme exceptand alanerlie the tailȝeit personis within listis — 1665 Decis. Lords G. 119.
His uncle might have had heirs male of his own body to succeed to his tailȝied estate 1681 Stair Inst. ii iii § 43.
Tailȝied infeftments are where the lands are provided to any other than the heirs of line 1696 Burnett of Leys 123.
I know not what advantage I shall mak of that tailȝed estate unlesse by selling the right 1698 H. Dalrymple Decis. (1792) 4.
The facultyis to burden the heir of the talȝied estateb. 1456 Hay I 269/29.
The maner of the bataill be tane under certane condicioun of tayllid strakisc. 1589 Reg. Privy C. IV 421.
Twa talyeit rubyis in chattonisd. 1507 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 709.
[One] hundrethe markis of tailȝeit gold … with forscoir markis of wsavill curall money a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 3.
Taylyied gold and silver a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 188.
Quhen the reversion beirs tailȝied gold or silver, if it cannot be had within the realme, the landis may be redeemed be peyment of gold or silver haveing cours for the tyme, beirieng the same value weight and fynes with that quhilk is specified in the reversion 1686 Mackenzie Observ. (1687) 44.
If the money … be tailȝied money (that is to say, a specifick kind of money, from the word talis) as for instance, five thousand merks in rose-nobles