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Localling, vbl. n. [Locall v.] The apportioning of liability for payment of a tax between the respective districts or places from which collectively it is due. — 1701 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs IV. 315.
The conventione considering that if they would proceed to the localling of the ten pounds which was to have been payed by the unfree burghs of regalitie and barronie [etc.]
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