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Valid(e, Valeid, adj. Also: valede, val(l)ied, walid(e, wal(l)ed, wailled, valete, valeat. [17th c. Eng. valid (1651), F. valide, L. validus.] In legal usage: Valid, sufficient or efficacious in law, legally binding. Chiefly predic. Also const. to do something or to the doing of something. b. transf. Of arguments: Sound, well-founded.(1) predic. 1565 Perth B. Ct. 358 (29 June).
That the warnyngis allegit be the said procuratour wer valete c1641 Sc. Ant. XXV 56.
The said Niniane … makis thaime beleive it [sc. a charter] is valeat quhilk be the Act of Parliament is null … and gives thame uther kyndis of infeftmentis subscrybit be two nottaris as valeat(b) 1566–7 Reg. Privy S. V ii 303/2.
The giftis … dispositionis foirsaidis … to be als walide to the said Maister Gilbert … as gif he wer provydit thairto in the court of Rome 1571 Reg. Privy C. II 95.
Valide 1578 Rec. Earld. Orkney 143.
Valeid 1582 Misc. Stair Soc. I 106.
The said evidentis declairit to haif bene and to be guid, trew, valide, and of full faith and force 1590 Conv. Burghs I 312.
The saidis … commissioun is valede and effectuall ? 1615 Lett. & St. P. Jas. VI 258.
The aduocat findis that I can nocht mak his maiestie ane reicht of the shireffschipe, nor he will nocht ansuer for the same to be walid a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 68.
The decreits of the lords of exchequer, being five at leist in number, to be als valid as if they wer given be the haill number of the lords a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 67.
If the defender be furth of the cuntrey … for publict effairs, no sentence given against him is valide 1641 Acts V (1817) 605/2.
Vallied 1641 Glasgow Chart. I ii 412.
Services of aires … to … landis … holden of the saidis beshops … whereby these haires are served to the saidis landis to be holden of the Kingis majestie to be vallied and laufull services 1665 Inverness Rec. II 226.
A new citatioune is appointed to be wsed against the said Clandonald … quhilk shall be fund as valied as give they were personalie chergit 1668-9 Fraser Lawfulness Separ. 50 (see Nullité n. 1 (1)). 1673 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.) 3 April.
To giwe discharges at the resceats therof quhilks shall be good walled and sufficient 1673 Dundee B. Laws 450.
Thes status holds guid and waled, renuncing all excepsions in the contrar ay and qhyll the said debit sall remaine unpayed, and therfor the deacone and counsell afirmes this act to be good and wailled 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. ii xxiii § 2.
It is sustained as valid, though not subscribed by him, if he … ratifie the execution given in by the messengerattrib. 1641 Acts V (1817) 520/1.
To be ane … valied seaseing … in all ages cumeing 1672 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 28 Feb.
That he sould have had ane valeid commissioune from Johne McStaffine … for frauchting … his boat(2) 1665 Decis. Lords G. 94.
The requisition being made contrair to the contract, it could not be valid to loose the infeftment 1673 Edinb. B. Rec. X 151.
Any such procedings be that the same sall on nawayes … hinder us … in electing ane fitt persone … and that the same shall stand good and valid to the preventing of novationsb. 1619 Garden Elphinstoun 1002.
Ar these not arguments Then, valeid, firme, and strong