Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1726-1838, 1896-1937
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REDDENDO, n. Also †redendo (Sh. 1733 T. Gifford Hist. Descr. (1879) 32). The duty, either in money, kind or service, to be paid by a vassal to a superior as set forth in a feu-charter, a feu-duty (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 73). Also attrib.Sc. 1726 W. McFarlane Geog. Coll. (S.H.S.) I. 170:
Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster is Baron, and almost the whole inhabitants hold of him for a Reddendo of Tallow.Sc. 1754 Erskine Principles ii. iii. § 10:
The clause of reddendo . . . specifies the particular duty or service which the vassal is to pay or perform to the superior; and hence, the duty itself, to which the vassal is subjected, has got the name of the reddendo.Sc. 1764 Session Papers, United Incorporations v. Nicolson (10 Feb.) 45:
Canongate is a Burgh of Regality, consequently Watching and Warding is no Part of the Reddendo of its Charter.Fif. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 IX. 444:
Pittenweem and Anstruther Easter were burdened with an annualrent or reddendo.Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 145:
The reddendo, which expresses the duty in money or services to be paid by the vassal to the superior, with the sum which an heir, and sometimes a singular successor, is to pay for a renewal of the grant, termed relief and entry money.Sc. 1896 W. K. Morton Manual 108:
Under the contract the superior has right to the fixed annual reddendo of payment or performance (now practically feu-duty).Sc. 1937 Times (6 July) 13:
The King who was greeted with the stately and time-honoured Royal salute with the bow, inspected his Bodyguard and then received the reddendo of three arrows barbed as for war or the chase, which are heavier than the barbless variety used at the butts.
