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Definition of Spuilzies
1. spuilzie [v] - See also: spuilzie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spuilzies
Literary usage of Spuilzies
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 (1828)
"... spuilzies ; yet if he shall once restrict his demand to simple restitution,
he cannot afterwards sue for the violent profits, though three years should ..."
2. A Practical View of the Statute Law of Scotland: From the Year MCCCCXXIV, to by James Watson (1828)
"81, ordains, " that all ac- " tions of spuilzies, ejection, and others of that
nature, " be pursued before the ordinary judge within three " years after the ..."
3. An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland: From the Reign of by William Alexander (1841)
"... 281 ; citations for interrupting prescription, 281 ; quinquennial prescription
of actions on warnings, and spuilzies, for minister's stipend, &c., ..."
4. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Possessory actions are those which are founded either upon possession alone, as
spuilzies; or upon possession joined with another title, ..."
5. A Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland, with Short Explanations of by William Bell, George Ross (1861)
"Of those, recent spuilzies, ejections, intrusions, and succeeding in the vice,
were directed, by an old Act of Sederunt, to be executed on a diet of fifteen ..."
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