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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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COGNITION, n. “A term applied to certain old processes for the ascertainment of facts regarding disputed marches, property of minors, lunatics, etc.” (Abd.¹⁶).Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 191:
Where the heir, before infeftment, made over the subject to another, the cognition of the heir's propinquity, and the purchaser's infeftment, might be inserted in the same instrument.Fif. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife and Kinross 106:
Willing and Appointing the Heretors, Inhabitants and Possessors of the saids Lands, . . . to be liable to the Jurisdiction of the Sheriffs thereof, in all Causes . . . competent to a Sheriff's Cognition.