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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Trans(s)um(e, v. P.p. transsumpt, trans(s)ump(t)it, transsumt, trans(s)umit, -et, trans(s)umitt, -yt, -eit, transumed, transummit. [e.m.E. transume (Caxton), transsume (1579), MF transumer, L. transsūmere, med. L. transsumere, transumptare.] tr. To make a copy, chiefly a properly authenticated copy of a (legal) document. b. To make a copy in a similar fashion of a seal. 1314 Reg. Dunferm. 231.
Hec est vera … copia [etc.] … nil addendo aut diminuendo quod eius suberam in aliquo variare possit transsumptære 1383 Liber Melros II 457.
Transsumi 1413 Reg. St. A. 17.
Transcribi transumi et publicaripres. 1407 Montgomery Mem. 20.
The Lordis of Counsall hes transsumit and transsumis the forsaid auld infeftmentp.p. 1407 Montgomery Mem. 20.
It is necessar that the said infeftment be transsumit befoir the Lordis of Counsall in autentik forme; to the effect that full faith be gevin to the said transsumpt thairof 1454 Southesk MSS 8.
This is the copy of the kyngis lettrez worde and word transsumit be me 1475 Edinb. B. Rec. I 32.
Thai to be ratifiit … as thir actis, and to be actit and transsumpt in the commoun buke 1488–9 Acta Aud. 123/1.
The said annexatioune to be transsumpit & copiit vnder notaris signe 1495 Acta Conc. I 395/2.
Transumpit 1496–7 Acta Conc. II 54.
[He] askit at thame that he micht haf it awtentikly copyit … and tharefore the lordis … decernis the sammyn to be transsumit and to be til him of als gret … effect in jugment … as the sade principale letter of tak 1498 Acta Conc. II 190.
Transumyt 1500–1 Acta Conc. II 487.
Transumyt 1501 Acta Conc. III 110.
Transsumyt 1516 Fife Sheriff Ct. 29.
Transsumit 1524 Stirling B. Rec. I 18.
Transumptit 1526 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 253.
Transumit 1532–3 Acta Conc. & Sess. (St. S.) 158.
The samin [sc. charter] to be registrat in the buikis of counsale transummit in authentick forme 1540 Ayr Chart. 17.
Transsumitt 1552 Breadalbane Doc. No. 90.
The just transsumpt and copye heirof to be extractit & transsumptit be the notar 1555 Conv. Burghs I 11.
The saidis provestis and commissionaris … ordanis ane out draucht or copy to be maid of the petecustomes buikis … and the samyn thairefter to be transumet again in sa mony buikis as thair are borrowis within this realme 1582 Perth B. Ct. 27 Nov.
Transsumt 1592 Banff Ann. II 410.
Transsumeit 1596 Paisley B. Rec. 179.
To be transumit and redactit in publict and autentik form and the extract thairof to be exhibit … to the clerk of court 1596 Calderwood V 534.
A copie, … not transumed out of the originall, but a vitiated copie, manked, altered, [etc.] 1597 Maxwell Mem. II 187.
Transumpit a1610 Stevenson Sempill Ballates 248/2.
Ȝit leist my name sould be transsumpt heir and theire a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 156.
Evidents transumed privatlie makes no fayth 1646 Stirling B. Rec. I 190.
Transsumet b. c1575 Balfour Pract. 371.
Gif the seill of ony evident be crasit [etc.] … the lordis … may tak the depositioun of … famous witnessis, quha knew the man quhom to the seill pertenit, and recognosce the samin, and thairefter transume it