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Name Term description
NameA-N C of M Term description

Ante-Nuptial Contract of Marriage
NameAct Term description

Formal decision
NameAddettit Term description

Indebted to, owing
NameAdjudication Term description

[Or 'adjudication for debt'] The legal action by which a debtor's property was passed to his creditors.  Adjudication in implement, on the other hand, is a decision by a court to implement a defective title to land.
NameAliment Term description

A maintenance
NameAir Term description

Heir
NameAlienate Term description

Sell
NameAllenarly Term description

Only, solely or exclusively
NameAmerciament Term description

A fine imposed on a wrongdoer
NameAnent Term description

Concerning, on the subject of
NameAnnalzie Term description

Alienate, or sell
NameAnnualrent Term description

Interest on a loan, paid annually
NameApparent heir Term description

Not the person who 'appears' to be heir to landed property, but the heir who has already succeeded to it
NameAppraisement Term description

Valuation
NameApprising Term description

The sentence of  a court affecting a debtor's heritable property, as a consequence of which that property would be sold to pay the debt.
NameArles Term description

A payment made to signify completion of a bargain
NameArticles of roup Term description

The conditions under which a property was to be auctioned
NameAssoilzie Term description

To find someone 'not guilty', to absolve them from the outcome of a legal action
NameAuchtand Term description

Owing
NameAt Term description

Indicates a landless person, e.g. Andrew Bennett, farm servant at Little Kenny
NameAvaill Term description

Worth, or monetary value
NameAwand Term description

Owing