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Interruptioun, -tion, n. Also: -tyowne, -tioune, -tione, -c(i)oun. [ME. interrupcion, -cyon (1390), e.m.E. -tion (16th c.), L. -ruptio.] Interruption; a breaking off, freq., the act of breaking off the occupation of, or encroachment on, a property, by means of a symbolic or legal act, thus preventing the establishment of a prescriptive right; 'the step legally requisite to stop the currency of the period of a prescription' (Bell).(a) c1420 Wynt. vii. 573.
Off that state interruptyowne [W. -ruptioun] [was] Mad be thare intrusyowne c1420 Ratis R. 765.
It blindis the discressioune Ay quhill sum tribulacioune Mak thare interruptioune 1493 Acta Conc. 281/2.
[1000 m.] aucht to him … for the interruptioun maid to the said Henry in the landis of Mekle Arnage 1502 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 642.
We … decernis hir to succed thairto withoutin interrupcioun c1515 Asl. MS. I. 321/22.
So Crist discending to hell was obeyit with feyndis withoutin interrupcoun 1566 Crail B. Ct. 31 Oct.
The saidis bailȝis mayd interruptioun of the furht ravyne of ane part of the proper muyr of Craill ... and siklyk cuyst doun ane fauld in Kepow and mayd interruptioun thayr of(b) c1420 Wynt. vii. 573 (C).
Off that state interrupcion [was] Made be thar intrusion 1485 Breadalbane Doc. (MS) No. 22.
Efter the said interruption be noturly knawin 1493 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II. 213.
To obserf and keype the samyn [lands] but ony revocacion, interupcione, or impediment to be mayd in the contrair 1612–13 Misc. Spald. C. V. 91.
Past with James Dauidsone, nottar, and Valter Robertsone, and maid interruptione to Robert Simsone … laboring out the tounis land 1615 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 322.
Of the quhilk hous Williame Gray, baillie, tuik doune ane dovet in takine of lauchfull interruptione and fand the said halff pennie hous and landis to apperteine in propertie to the said towne of Aberdeine 1674 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 177.
The fyre … did threatene destructione to the wholl toun … iff … ane tenement … had not maid interuptione 1681 Stair Inst. (1693) II. xii. § 26.
The main exception or reply against prescription is interruption, not only by the discontinuing the possession of the whole but also of a part, which was found sufficient to interrupt the prescription as to the whole