Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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DISJUNCTION, n.
1. Sc. law: the disjoining or dividing up (of parishes).Sc. 1844 Pub. Gen. Acts 7 and 8 Vict. C. 44 § vi.:
Notwithstanding such Division or Disjunction, the original Parish and the several new or separate Parishes thereby erected within the bounds thereof.Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 331:
The Court of Session, as commissioners for the plantation of kirks and the valuation of teinds, have the power of disjoining or dividing large parishes, or annexing portions of one parish to another . . . and of erecting new churches, provided the disjunction or annexation is made with consent of a majority of the heritors in the parish.Ayr. [1848] A. M'Kay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 150:
After the disjunction of the new parish.
2. In comb. disjunction certificate, the certificate given to a church member when he leaves to join another church.Sc. 1945 J. T. Cox Practice C. of Scot. 115:
It is the duty of the Kirk Session to see that members leaving the congregation are furnished with disjunction or transference certificates.
