Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1752
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SUBREPTION, n. Sc. Law usage: the act of obtaining gifts of escheat, etc., from the Crown by concealing certain facts (Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot 949). Cf. Obreption.Sc. 1752 Bankton Institute II 259:
All rights of escheats . . . are granted by signatures or gifts from the crown, which may be stopt at their passing the seals, those being checks against subreption or obreption, i.e. their being obtained by concealing the truth, or expressing a falsehood.
