excambionn.
/ɛkˈskambɪən/ Scots Law.
Exchange or barter, spec. of land.
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1540 Sc. Acts Jas. V 25 Feb. (1814) II. 366 And counsalis þe kingis grace..to geif for his gracis part of þe said excambium als mekle land..as, etc.]
1572 Sempill Ball. 147 Sic vane excambion can I not considder As marrow tratours and the trew togidder.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1655) 100 He gave in excambion the lands of Cambo in the same parish.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. iii. 133 The rights, by which the lands are exchanged, expressly bear an excambion.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) The land which he has received in excambion.
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