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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1555-1633
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Unredemabill, -redemabile, -redeemable, -redimabill, adj. [e.m.E. vnredeemeable (1593); Redemabil(l adj.] Not capable of being repurchased or taken back into ownership, by a previous possessor. —1555 Acts II 490/2.
It is statute … that quhether the annuell be redemabill or vnredemabill [etc.] 1561 Glasgow Protocols Abstracts III 2.
Grantand the saidis four riggis lande to remayne with the saidis Mathow, heretabille and unredemabile 1584 Reg. Privy C. III 672.
Heretabill tennendreis unredimabill a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 191.
Landed men worth 300 merks of rent unredeemable
