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SUBSTITUTE, ppl.adj., n. Sc. usages:

I. adj. Nominated in place of another, as a deputy or in order to replace a pre-deceasing person in an inheritance or the like, in combs. gen. following the noun qualified: ‡1. heir substitute, an heir in remainder, an heir of entail. See Tailyie; 2. sheriff substitute, the deputy of the Sheriff principal of a county. See Sheriff. Cf. Depute. 3. stewart substitute, id., in a stewartry. See Stewart.1. Sc. 1715 Morison Decisions 14853:
Alexander Stevenson's executors, as heirs substitute to Susanna the fiar.Sc. 1774 Morison Decisions 15430:
One of the substitute heirs of tailzie.Sc. 1816 Scott Antiquary xvi.:
No string of substitute heirs of entail.Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 950:
Heirs substitute in bonds cannot be liable for the granter's debts ultra valorem.Sc. 1933 Encycl. Laws Scot. VII. 534:
It is usual to call classes of substitute heirs by their relation to individuals called nominatim as the head of stirpes.3. Per. 1734 Beauties of Upper Strathearn (1860) 42:
George Bryce, Stewart-Substitute of the Stewart[r]y of Strathearn.

II. n. A person who is to succeed to an estate in entail in the event of the first heir or his line failing, one in the named succession of heirs of entail (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 86). See Institute.Sc. 1722 W. Forbes Institutes I. ii. 103:
Any other Deed whereby the Lands may be adjudged or evicted from the other Substitutes in the Tailzie.Sc. 1734 J. Spotiswood Hope's Major Practicks 400:
The Person in whose favours the Lands are tailzied in the first Place is called the Institute, and the subsequent Members are called Substitutes.Sc. 1891 J. Craigie Conveyancing 169:
There is this practical difference between an institute and a substitute that the latter requires to make up a title as an heir.