Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyesses
Literary usage of Oyesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir ...by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"Proclamation of three several oyesses at denouncing on letters of horning, 328, 56.
P. PACTA liberatoria cannot be resiled ..."
2. The Decisions of the Court of Session: From Its First Institution to the by Scotland Court of Session, William Maxwell Morison (1811)
"... where a messenger's execution says he has lawfully denounced and inhibited,
and it was urged this included the three oyesses and blast of the hom, ..."
3. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"... where a messenger's execution says he has lawfully denounced and inhibited,
and it was urged this included the three oyesses and blast of the horn, ..."
4. A Summary of the Powers and Duties of a Justice of the Peace in Scotland: In by George Tait (1821)
"... reading the said decree and execution of charge, and making public proclamation
by three oyesses, I apprehended the goods after mentioned, pertaining to ..."
5. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow ... A. D. 1573-17 by Glasgow (Scotland), James David Marwick, Robert Renwick (1908)
"dwelling house and at the mercat croce of Glasgow, after the crying of three
several! oyesses thornt, be George Young, officer, ..."
6. The Scottish Justices' Manual: Being an Alphabetical Compendium of the by William Blair (1834)
"... and making public proclamation by three oyesses, I apprehended the goods after
mentioned, pertaining to the said CD, and I adduced and to be appraisers, ..."
7. The Cabinet: A Series of Essays, Moral and Literary by Archibald Bell, Henry Glassford Bell (1835)
"Silence being proclaimed with due solemnity, by three several oyesses, I began
by unfolding, in a long and eloquent speech, the nature and objects of the ..."
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