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Quotation dates: 1400, 1475-1604
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Assignatioun, n. Also: -acioune, -acione; -asione; assyngnacion, assingnacioun, -nation(e, -aision. [ME. assygnacion (a 1400), assignacion, OF. assignacion, L. assignātio.] Assignation, (legal) assignment.(a) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 316.
Inne to thar assignacioune [L. assignacione] … the pees … shall … Be holden ay wnfenȝeandly 1475 Edinb. B. Rec. 30.
In token of gevin consent and assignatioun to the saidis craftismen of the said ile 1476 Acts Lords Auditors 46/1.
Sir John producit a letter … of assignatioun of the said landis 1496 Acts Lords of Council II. 19.
The sade assignacione was datit in the moneth of March 1515 Reg. Privy S. I. 404/1.
[The assignee] enterand to the said assignatioun at the terme of Martymes next tocum 1584 Acts III. 304/1.
The getting of the assignationis of ther levingis and stipendis modefijt to thame 1604 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 246.
Ye sall giff ane perticular assign[a]sion off ten chaders victuall, mell and ber … to Mester Gorg Greme(b) 1502 Halyb. 275.
Item send hym at that samyn tym a assyngnacion to Master Robert Forman 1542 Protocol Book of J. Crawford 15.
In the sykyrest … forme of assingnacioun at can be devisyt 1545 Corr. M. Lorraine 149.
I beleif the maist effek of the … money is dischargit to me be your grace assingnaisions maid to Sir Watter Ogilby 1553 Lanark B. Rec. 26.
Quhilk land pertenit to hym be ane assingnatione maid to hym
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