Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, double poinding or double distress.
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Examples
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Mowbray; “they purchase our acres by the thousand, and pay us, according to the old story, with a multiplepoinding, as your learned friends call it, Mr. Meiklewham.”
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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"they purchase our acres by the thousand, and pay us, according to the old story, with a multiplepoinding, as your learned friends call it, Mr. Meiklewham."
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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