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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Relocatio(u)n, n. [Late L. relocāre to relet.] Chiefly tacit relocation: ‘The tacit or implied renewal of a lease, inferred where the landlord, instead of warning the tenant to remove at the stipulated expiration of the lease has allowed him to continue without making any new agreement’ (Bell Dict. Law Scotl.). — c1575 Balfour Pract. 208.
Gif ony man be in possessioun of ony landis, fischingis, rentis, or uther dewteis, he may not, induring the time of his relocatioun, be removit thairfra — c1575 Balfour Pract. 209.]
[Ane man havand tak and assedatioun of teindis, landis, or ony uther possessioun, and all the ȝeiris and termis contenit thairin already expyrit, gif he remanis in possessioun, na inhibitioun nor warning being maid to him thairanent, he, per tacitam relocationem, hes just titill … to remane in possessioun of the saidis lands (etc.) 1633 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. I 82.
For the tacit relocation was not found interrupted by her son's intervening possession 1681 Stair Inst. ii ix § 23.
Tacit relocation is that which is presumed to be the mind of both parties after expiring of a tack, when neither the setter warneth, nor the tacks-man renounceth 1683 Fountainhall Decis. I 229.
They had used a warning against him, and so taken off his tacit relocation