decreet

But it went, he said, just like a decreet in absence, and was lost for want of a contradictor.

Redgauntlet 2008

And when they have done ye wrang, even when ye hae gotten decreet of spuilzie, oppression, and violent profits against them, what better are ye?

Waverley 2004

‘I understand your honour perfectly; it can be dune as easy as taking out a decreet in absence.’

Waverley 2004

Doom's done wi '; it's his decreet, and I'm no' a day ower soon wi 'the promise o' the Red Sodger -- for the which I'm muckle obleeged to you,

Doom Castle Neil Munro

In a decreet arbitral, dated 16th Oct. 1518, as well as in the sentence pronounced against Sir John Borthwick, in 1540, he is styled a Canon of the

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

` ` I understand your honour perfectly; it can be dune as easy as taking out a decreet in absence. ''

The Waverley 1877

And when they have done ye wrang, even when ye hae gotten decreet of spulzie, oppression, and violent profits against them, what better are ye?

The Waverley 1877

Francis Stewart, son of the forfeited Earl, obtained from the favour of Charles I. a decreet-arbitral, appointing the two noblemen, grantees of his father's estate, to restore the same, or make some compensation for retaining it.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

Francis Stewart, son of the forfeited Earl, obtained from the favour of Charles I. a decreet-arbitral, appointing the two noblemen, grantees of his father's estate, to restore the same, or make some compensation for retaining it.

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

'I understand your honour perfectly; it can be dune as easy as taking out a decreet in absence.'

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801