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Definition of Tailzies
1. tailzie [n] - See also: tailzie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailzies
Literary usage of Tailzies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... with an index of the registers of tailzies from AD 1685 to 1830,' Edinburgh,
1830. 7. 'Additional Observations on Entails,' Edinburgh, 1831. ..."
2. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"And on this footing mutual tailzies, though they are in truth a mutual purchase
of one another's succession, are effectual. One who obliges himself to what ..."
3. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"... the disposition was not recorded in the register of tailzies,—held, after the
decease of the granter, that this disposition was not to be considered as ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"The same course is followed with the books of record issued by the Lord Clerk-Register
to the keeper of the register of tailzies as with the keepers of the ..."
5. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Thomas Day (1812)
"... as is done by the tailzies of Scotland -with irritant and résolutive clauses,
or, like their settlements of what is called »impie destination, ..."
6. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1844)
"erediti in their persons;' and tbe report goes on to state, that it was laid down
as a general principle with respect to all tailzies, that ' if tbe ..."
7. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of the by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1842)
"... and that, not having been recorded in the Register of tailzies, it is not
effectual against creditors or purchasers, and therefore cannot affect the ..."
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