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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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LOCATION, n. Sc. Law: the act of hiring or renting (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 52). Agent n. locator.Sc. 1703 Morison Decisions 8473:
It is most unequal and irrational for the tenant to have liberty to resile, and not the locator or setter. … This contract of location conduction being once perfected, there should be no locus poenitentiae.Sc. 1754 Erskine Principles iii. iii. § 5:
Location is that contract, where an hire is stipulated for the use of things or for the services of persons. … He who lets his work or the use of his property to hire, is the locator or lessor.Sc. 1927 Gloag and Henderson Intro. Law Scot. 243:
Hiring is the location of moveable property.