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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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ADJUDICATION, n. Sc. law: “A legal seizure, or judicial conveyance of the debtor's estate, for the creditor's security and payment” (Sinclair).Sc. 1722 W. Forbes Institutes I. iii. 39: 
Adjudication is a Decreet of the Lords of Session, adjudging and appropriating a Person's Lands to belong to his Creditor, who is called the Adjudger, for Payment or Performance.Sc. 1775 Shaw Hist. Moray 90:
About 1680 . . . Grange got possession of Burgie by adjudication, and made it his seat.Sc. 1782 J. Sinclair Ob. Sc. Dial. 215:
[As quoted above.]Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian xxxix.: 
I sall raise an adjudication, whilk Mr. Saddletree says comes instead of the auld apprisings.[O.Sc. adjudicatioun, id., 1621.]