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†SUPERINDUCE, v. Sc. Law usage: to alter or obliterate (a word in a document) by writing another word on top of it or in its place after erasure. Hence superinduction, the deletion of a word in manuscript by the substitution or imposition of another.Sc. 1703 Session Papers, Anstruther v. Wallace (13 July) 10:
[He] saw a word scored in it which was Legible, being the word Decease, and the word Refuseal Super-induced upon the said word.Sc. 1729 Session Papers, Arrott v. Troup (10 July) 2:
Some other Place and Date had originally been inserted, and afterwards raz'd, and that the present Date had been super-induced. . . . The Writ to ocular Inspection being vitiate, by cancelling a very substantial Part of the Deed by Razing and Super-induction.
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