The Scottish language has changed over the
years, being influenced by other languages and
cultures. This section provides you with a definition
of those words and phrases commonly found in
documents and records throughout Scotland's
archives. If you know of a word you would like
added to the Glossary then please contact
us.
a person to whom land is conveyed to be held
by him from the landowner (the superior) for
the payment of a yearly rent or feu-duty or
the performance of some regular service to the
superior
vice, succeeding
in the
"succeeding in the vice" takes place
when someone arranges with a tenant who is to
remove from the property he holds by lease,
to take over his holding from him when he goes
without the consent of the landowner
any sort of grain or corn; "victual rents"
are payments made in grain.
vide
"see"
violent profits
dues payable by anyone possessing lands illegally;
for example, a tenant who was supposed to leave
his holding at the end of his lease, but didn't,
would be liable to his landlord for the profits
the landlord could have made if he had resumed
control of the lands himself or leased them
to another tenant
vitiation
not quite forgery but related to it; it means
altering a document without the consent of all
the parties to the document
