Lexicographical Neighbors of Retouring
Literary usage of Retouring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A View of the Office of Sheriff in Scotland: Of the Duties Incident Thereto by Robert Clark (1824)
"Gil. to be allowed for agency in raising and retouring. But the charge of agency
for raising and retouring never to exceed 51. &s. ..."
2. Decisions of the Court of Session: From the Year 1733 to the Year 1754 ...by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison (1813)
"... retouring his lands at L.3 old extent and L.I2 new, and two retours in 1563
and 1574, agreeing with it, only differing a little in the orthography of ..."
3. The Scots Revised Reports, [Court of Session]: Faculty Collection, 1807-1825 by Scotland Court of Session (1906)
"46), for retouring them to merk or pound lands, that they might be charged
accordingly. This provision did not relate to holders of church lands, ..."
4. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1824)
"... therefore special rules are prescribed, according to which the stewards and
bailies of the King's lands were to conduct themselves in retouring them. of ..."
5. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1831)
"... and, though not in absolute property, the verdict of the jury in retouring
his son as heir is complete evidence under the statute. ..."
6. Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical by Arthur Collins, Egerton Brydges (1812)
"This is instructed incontrovertibly by a precept out of the Chancery, for serving
and retouring of Thomas Stewart de ..."
7. Decisions of the Court of Session: From November 1825 to [20th July 1841] by John Tawse, F. Somerville, John Craigie, George Robinson, Scotland Court of Session, Charles Gordon Robertson, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) (1838)
"On 27th November 14-78, the King prosecutes the persons of inquest for retouring
lands, as held blench, instead of ward, of the Crown; Acta Dom. Cone. p. ..."
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