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Quotation dates: 1488-1489, 1540-1644
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Trans(s)uming, Trans(s)umpting, vbl. n. Also: transsumy(i)ng, transumeing, transumming, transumping. [Trans(s)um(e v.] The action of copying (a legal document). 1488–9 Acts Lords Auditors 123/1.
To the copying & transumping of the quhilk [annexatioune] 1540 Ayr Chart. 17.
Ane edict … for transsuming of the said charter 1579–80 Reg. Privy S. VII 365/1.
[Sir Herbert Andersoun … put to the horn] for non compering … to have borne witnessing in ane caus of transuming of ane auld proces of adherence 1590 St. A. B. Ct. 12 May.
Transsuming 1596 Maxwell Mem. II 187.
This buik wes producit … for transsumpting of vthir instrumentis 1599 Aberd. B. Rec. II 182.
For the extracting and transsuming of any instrumentis furth of the same 1603 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II 156.
Transumeing 1604 Aberd. Council Lett. I 97.
Transsumying 1622-6 Bisset I 144/21.
All causis salbe called and decyded … transsumyng of evidentis, controventionis, [etc.] a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 156.
The relict and children of defunct nottars whos protocolls ar delivered to the clerk register should be summoned to the transumeing of instruments out of the samen 1640 Glasgow B. Rec. I 421.
Transumming 1644 Glasgow Trades House 236.
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