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Wedsettar, -er, Wodset(t)er, Wadsettar, -er, n. Also: vodsetter, woodset(t)er. [Wedset(t v.] a. One who puts his land, etc. in pledge, one who gives his land in wedsett.The first quot. may belong in b.a. 1595 Prot. Bk. T. Lindsay 273a.
Allane Lokert … assignay speciallie constitut to redeme the saides annuelrentis be Robert Boyde in Clerkland wedsettar of the samyn than being heritour thairof 1623 Durie Decis. 43.
Mr. John … defended against the removing by vertue of a wodset infeftment given to him of the lands … The lords found that the infeftment became extinct … in so far as … he had comprised the reversion of the same lands which he had in wodset of before from the wodsetter; with certain other lands for the same sum for which the wodset was granted to himb. 1633 Misc. Spald. C. III 71.
The book of the annualrentaris and wedsettaris within the schirefdome of Abirdein c1650 Spalding I 288.
Wedsetteris 1655 Grant Chart. 243.
To give … our bodilie service … as the other gentlemen wedsettarres … does(b) 1603–4 Rec. Earld. Orkney 176.
Robert Smyddie, present occupyar of the samen, and Nicholl Sinclair, wodsetter of the samen 1650 Strathbogie Presb. 146.
Vodsetteris 1665 Decis. Lords G. 101.
The wodseter, or compriser of the wodset, should put the granter of the wodset upon his payment of his money 1670 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III 148.
Wee, being informed that the quaikers … did latly meit at Pettismilne in a tenents house belonging to Sir Jon Keith, doe authorise … yow … to seize … the woodsetter or tenent at Pettismilne 1670 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 4 Oct.
All heretors wodsetterris and possessors within burgh to remove … stones 1673 Rothesay B. Rec. 248.
We the heretors woodseters tenents and other inhabitants within the brugh of Rothesay 1684–5 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXXVI 171.
Woodsetter 1685 Decis. Lords F. 79.
Plague and war … which the wodsetter was lyable to, and had no relief from the granter of the wodset 1686 Misc. Spald. C. V 234.
Ordening all hearitors, lyffrenters, proper wodsetters, and all wthers … to causs thair tennants [etc.] 1690 Acts IX 236/2.
Where any houses are not inhabited that the said hearth money shall be payed by the heretor liferenter or proper wodsetter 1691 Brechin Test. VIII 53a.
James Guthrie woodsetter(c) 1671 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 543.
An action … against a proper wadsetter, for repayment of the superplus of the mails and duties of the lands given in wadset, more than will perfect the annualrent of the sum whereon the wadset is made redeemable 1678 Fountainhall Decis. I 6.
The Lords found a liferentrix might cut trees for necessary uses. … If a wadsetter may do as much? I think he may 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i xxiv 4 (1699) 122.
The wadsetter runs all hazard of the lands wadset to him 1681 Stair Inst. ii x § 3.
That the reversion shall be effectual not only against the first wadsetter … but all his successors in the wadset lands 1681 Stair Inst. ii x § 9.
If the person having right to the reversion offer surety and demand possession, the wadsetter must quit possession [etc.] 1681 Stair Inst. ii x § 9.
Proper wadsetters 1683 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 2 Jan.
Item [due] by Sussanna Reid … aire to the deceist John Reid … wadsettar of the Kirkland of Partoune … for his entres 1684 Cramond Ch. Grange 44.
The heritours, wadsetters and liferenters, were advertised to pay a merk the plough towards the repairing the fabrick of the kirk 1698 Misc. 3 Spald. C. II 103.
Captain James Menzies tutor of Weims is land lord baillie heretor owner or wadsetter of the landis
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