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Quotation dates: 1754
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APPRISE, v., tr. Sc. law: to have (land belonging to a debtor) sold for payment of the debt; to value (the debtor's land) for this purpose. [ə′praɪz]Sc. 1754 Erskine Princ. Law Scot. (1820) 264:
Personal rights of lands may be apprised.Sc. 1754 Erskine Princ. Law Scot. (1820) 263:
If no purchaser could be found, the sheriff was to apprise or tax the value of the lands by an inquest (whence came the name of apprising), and to make over to the creditor lands to the value of the debt.
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