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/an/, U.S. /æn/, Scottish English /an/ Scots Law (now historical).
A half-year's salary, legally due to the executors of the will of a deceased minister of the Church of Scotland, paid in addition to any stipend owing at the time of the minister's death; = annate n. 1.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > management or disposal of estate > money due to executors of minister
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1610 in W. Fraser Sutherland Bk. (1892) III. 178 Dettis..of the personage and vicarage, in annis and crops.
1705 W. Forbes Treat. Church-lands & Tithes 136 The Ann is equally divided betwixt the Relict and the Children; or failing these, betwixt her and the nearest of Kin.
1866 Jrnl. Jurispr. Oct. 299 There appears..to have been a variance as to the exact amount of Ann payable on the decease of a minister.
1998 D. M. Walker Legal Hist. Scotl. V. 265 The Ann Act, 1672 declared it to be a half year's stipend given by law on the death of churchmen to their executors.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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