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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SETTLEMENT, n. Sc. usages:

1. The disposition of one's property by will, a testament (Sc. 1798 Monthly Mag. (Sept.) 177). Gen.Sc. Phr. disposition and settlement, id., orig. of one's whole estate as opposed to testament which referred to moveable property only.Sc. 1733 Morison Decisions 15940:
A person in liege poustie, made a total settlement of his estate by disposition.Sc. 1768 Session Papers, Petition M. Brown (22 Nov.) 1:
He, by a settlement executed some time before his death, vested his whole fortune real and personal in the hands of certain trustees. . . . The general clause of substitution narrated in Dr Anderson's will, or settlement.Sc. 1815 Scott Guy M. xxxv.:
This lady . . . made a general settlement of her affairs in Miss Lucy Bertram's favour.Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 311:
Where a person wishes to regulate his whole succession, heritable as well as moveable, he may do so by a general disposition and settlement.Sc. 1927 Gloag and Henderson Intro. Law Scot. 468:
A mutual settlement is a deed in which two or more parties give directions as to the disposal of their estates after their deaths.

2. The placing by a Presbytery of a minister in a charge. See Settle, v., 2.Sc. 1705 Acts Gen. Assembly Index:
Mr John Webster's Settlement at Fetteresso.Sc. 1761 Ayr Presb. Reg. MS. (18 March):
It was proposed to the Presbytery that they should immediately enter upon the Consideration of the Settlement of Monktown.Sc. 1825 Jam.:
A congregation is said to get a settlement, when the Pastor is introduced to the discharge of the pastoral office among them.Sc. 1893 T. Brown Annals Disruption 22:
Only one man signed his call, while six-sevenths of the congregation actively opposed his settlement.Sc. 1945 J. T. Cox Practice Ch. Scot. 231:
The Regulations for the Election, Settlement, and Translation of Ministers.