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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Test, n.² Also: (testem). [Late ME and e.m.E. teste (1464), test (Shakespeare), L. testis a witness, or aphetic f. Attest v. to witness.] (A statement of) the evidence in a case (presented before a court). — c1450-2 Howlat 253 (A).
The pape said to the owle propone thin appele … I am deformed quod the fyle … All this trety has he tald be termes in test a1589 Maxwell in Paisley Mag. (1828) 384.
Fugiens pestem, the blok and Maide; Respiciens restem, fugiens pestem, I tuik ane testem, de Stirling Raid 1616 Crim. Trials III 385.
The said George being suspectit thairof, and vrget be James Douglas to geve ane test, quhair he was that nycht … becaus he could nocht geve the said test [etc.] 1672 Rothesay B. Rec. 311.
I have granted … to the said Johne a richt … of fourtie punds money … conteined in the said test anent which the said Johne hes enterit in persute of lawe