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Quotation dates: 1707-1710, 1797-1818, 1880
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ELIDE, v. Sc. law: to quash, annul, render ineffective, esp. of a libel or charge (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 31). Also †elied (Sc. 1712 Records Conv. Burghs (1885) 56); †eleid.Sc. 1707 in Acts Parl. Scot. (1824) XI. 381:
Which way soever it may be carried, it in my humble opinion eleids one of the tuo votes past yesterday.Sc. 1710 in J. Burnett Criminal Law (1811) App. xii.:
They sustained the defence that previously thereto, the defunct was valetudinary and sickly, and in a habit of spitting blood, [as] relevant to elide the libel.Sc. 1797 D. Hume Commentaries I. 481:
Certainly this is a relevant defence to elide the statute.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian xii.:
Whilk uncertainty is sufficient to elide the conclusions of the libel.Sc. 1880 J. Muirhead Institutes of Gaius iv. § 124:
He may . . . elide the exception.
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