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FACTORY, n. Also †factorie. Sc. usages.
†1. The office or jurisdiction of factor.Mry. 1729 Lord Elchies' Letters (ed. MacWilliam) 81:
Delrachny writes me his son gives up his factory.Sc. 1753 Scots Mag. (Nov.) 555:
He . . . accepted the factory of the estate.Sc. 1814 Scott Waverley xlii.:
They lie maist ewest . . . and should naturally fa' under the same factory.Sc. 1825 Scott Letters (Cent. ed.) VIII. 504:
The Law on his part insists that he shall give up what factories he may have in the Country.
‡2. A written permission to someone to act on one's behalf, corresponding to Eng. power of attorney, which is now common in Sc. usage also.Sc. 1706 Analecta Scot. (ed. Maidment) I. 257:
For uplifting whereof I have constituted you my factor, by a factory, dated the 18th day of January instant.Abd. 1733 Monymusk Papers (S.H.S.) 209:
Thereafter compeared Thomas Wilson and produced ane factorie signed by the said Sir Archibald Grant.Sc. 1790 J. Boswell Letters (ed. Tinker 1924) 477:
Enclosed is a factory to you to receive my rents.
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