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Quotation dates: 1682-1698
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Vicennial, adj. [L. vīcennium.] Extending over a period of twenty years. — 1682 Fountainhall Decis. I 195.
Tho' we have not the vicennial presumption with us yet the length of time since it was perpetrate may serve to expiate and obliterate the crime in some measure 1698 Fountainhall Decis. II 3.
The vicennial prescription of holograph writs relates only to bonds, missives or subscribed compt-books, and cannot be extended to receipts of writs
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