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Quotation dates: 1704-1773
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†TRANSUME, v. To make an official copy of a legal document. Obs. in Eng. c.1550. Cf. Transumpt.Sc. 1704 Edb. Univ. Charters (Morgan 1937) 154:
To the effect the said booke might be fairly transumed and more regullarly wrytten.Sc. 1751 W. MacFarlane Geneal. Coll. (S.H.S.) II. 531:
He exhibited Eleven Charters therein insert, and desired them to be Transumed by a Notar.Sc. 1773 Erskine Institutes iv. i. § 53:
When a decree of transumpt is questioned upon a ground of falsehood alledged against the writing transumed.
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