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Taciturnitie, -y(e, n. [ME taciturnite (c1450), taciturnitie (1576).] Taciturnity, silence, also, silence with regard to a debt or obligation. — 1532 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 389.
[The lords upheld Loudoun's contention … that Otterburn's] taciturnitie at the bar [was equivalent to consent] 1569 Sc. Hist. Rev. I 40.
Your grace … wil not only prais & allow my by past taciturnitye bot also comand the pourpose to be bwryed with sylence in time to come c1575 Balfour Pract. 181 (see Tacitlie adv.).
Taciturnitie 1694 Fountainhall Decis. I 642.
The Lords found it did not take off the taciturnity, seeing it was not a real action against the creditors