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• EXCAMBION (a word connected with a large class of Low Latin and Romance forms, such as cambium, concambium, scambium, from Lat. cambire, Gr. KhOety or Kh/s7rTav, to bend, turn or fold)

EXCAMBION (a word connected with a large class of See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

Low Latin and See also:

• ROMANCE

Romance forms, such as cambium, concambium, scambium, from See also:

• LAT

Lat. cambire, Gr. KhOety or Kh/s7rTav, to See also:

• BEND

bend, turn or See also:

• FOLD

fold)  , in Scots See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange (q.v.) of one heritable subject for another . The See also:

• MODERN

modern Scottish See also:

• EXCAMBION (a word connected with a large class of Low Latin and Romance forms, such as cambium, concambium, scambium, from Lat. cambire, Gr. KhOety or Kh/s7rTav, to bend, turn or fold)

excambion may consist in the exchange of any heritable subjects whatever, e.g. a patronage or, what often occurs, a portion of a See also:

• GLEBE (Lat. glaeba, gleba, clod or lump of earth, hence soil, land)

glebe for See also:

• SERVITUDE (Lat. servitus, from service, to serve)

servitude . See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

Writing is not, by the law of See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, essential to an excambion . Chiefly in favour of the class of cottars and small feuars, and for convenience in straightening See also:

• MARCHES, THE (It. Le Marche)

marches, the law will consider the most informal memoranda, and even a verbal agreement, if supported by the subsequent See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession . The See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to excamb was gradually conferred on entailed proprietors . The See also:

• MONTGOMERY
• MONTGOMERY ( Tre' Faldwyn)
• MONTGOMERY, GABRIEL, SEIGNEUR DE LORGES, COMTE DE (c. 1530-1574)
• MONTGOMERY, JAMES (1771-1854)
• MONTGOMERY, ROBERT (1807-1855)

Montgomery See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act, which was passed in 1770, to facilitate agricultural improvements, permitted 50 acres arable and too acres not See also:

• FIT

fit for the plough to be excambed . This was enlarged by the See also:

• ROSEBERY, ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE, 5TH

Rosebery Act in 1836, under which one-See also:

• FOURTH

fourth of an entailed See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate, not.including the See also:

• MANSION (through O. Fr. mansion, mod. maison, from Lat. mansio, dwelling-place, stage on a journey; manere, to remain)

mansion-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house, See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home See also:

• FARM

farm and policies, might be excambed, provided the heirs took no higher grassum (O.E. gersum, See also:

• FINE

fine) than £200 . The power was applied to the whole estate by the See also:

• RUTHERFORD, MARK
• RUTHERFORD, WILLIAM GUNION (1853–1907)

Rutherford Act of 1848, and the necessary consents of substitute heirs are now regulated by the See also:

• ENTAIL (from Fr. tailler, to cut; the old derivation from tales haeredes is now abandoned)

Entail(Scotland) Act 1882 .