Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1841-1909
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BOND, n. and v. Also boan. Sc. law. The general meaning of this word in Scots law is the same as in English; but in Scotland it usually refers to money lent on the security of land or buildings, and so is equivalent to the English "mortgage," a word not used in Scotland in this sense, except as an English loan-word. The document which represents such a debt in Scotland is termed a bond and disposition in security, and contains an acknowledgment of debt along with a conveyance of the property (Abd.16 1934).
1. n. A mortgage.Sc. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter II. 131:
We [Scots] speak of a bond instead of a mortgage.Sc. 1909 Colville 72:
Real estate is mortgaged under a bond or disposition in security.
2. v.
(1) To mortgage.Rnf. 1861 J. Barr Poems 109:
I've heard that his property's bonded.Kcb. 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister (1895) 6:
I got the place quietly bonded, and bought him old Dr Aitkin's practice.
(2) To give services to a family in return for one's board. A nonce backformation from Bondage. Rnf. 1841 Private MS.:
I dreaded the thought of a young Lady boanning in the house [as a governess].
