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Quotation dates: 1701-1741, 1795-1837, 1924
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EXPEDE, v. [ɛk′spid]
†1. To dispatch, expedite (Sc. 1825 Jam.2).Sc. 1722 R. Wodrow Sufferings II. 288:
He had been expeding some of his private Business in Cheapside.Arg. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 XIII. 663:
To expede the execution of these lines, the most of them advanced at once 15 years road stent.
2. Sc. law: to issue (a document, etc.) officially, esp. in phr. to expede letters, “to write out the principal writ, and get it signeted, sealed, or otherwise completed” (Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 439). Pa.t. and pa.p. expede, †exped.Sc. 1701 in Analecta Scot. (ed. Maidment 1834) I. 48:
For expeding Advocation against the Hammermen of the Canongate.Sc. 1741 in S. C. Misc. (1842) II. 20:
I heartily curse my doers, whose only fault it was that these charters were not expede two years agoe.Sc. 1837 Session Cases (1836–7) 1167:
He expede a charter of resignation, and was infeft under all the fetters of the entails.Sc. 1924 Act 14 and 15 Geo. V. c.27. § 97:
A notice of title expede in terms of this Act shall be equivalent to a notarial instrument expede according to the present law and practice.
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