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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1575-1693
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Claré constat. [L. ‘it is clearly established’, the opening words of the document.] A precept of seisin granted to an heir by the superior. ‘In which the superior acknowledges that the obtainer of the precept is next lawful heir to him who died last vest and seised in the particular lands therein specified’ John Erskine of Carnock An Institute of the Law of Scotland in the order of Sir G. Mackenzie's Institutions of that Law (1773) iii. viii. § 71. c1575 Balfour Pract. 563.
The superiour may on na wayis, without the King's license or presentatioun, give sasine be clarè constat, or uther wayis, of ony landis 1575 Fam. Rose 266.
Ane vther instrument of sesing of the saidis landis, past vpon ane precept of clare constat [etc.] 1611 Stirling B. Rec. I. 127.
That … the aires and new intrant tennentis of all landis belangand to this burghe … sall enter thame selfis to the saide landis be preceptis of clare constat 1622-6 Bisset I. 177/26.
Fourtie ȝeiris prescriptioun anent productioun of … preceptis of clare constatt 1654 Ayr Chart. 193.
To give infeftmentes and saisingis … by precepts of clare constatt 1693 Acts IX. 332/1.
Excepting always from this act precepts of clare constat
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