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ˈlaw-borrow Sc. Law.
Now only in pl.. Also 5 -burgh, pl. -borowis, -bowrous, -boris, 7–9 -burrows.
[f. law n.1 + borrow n.]
The legal security required from a person that he will not injure the person, family, or property of another; security of the peace. Also action, bond of law-borrows. to swear a law-borrows against (a person): to make an affidavit of being in danger from him.
1457Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 51/1 And gif ony man be fedyt..þe schirref sall furthwithe of bath þe parteis tak law borowis. 1474Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 406 He was nocht under law borrowis anent the said William of Cadiou. 1484Ibid. 40 William Futhes is becumin law burgh that William Vmfray salbe vnscathit in tym cuming. 1597Sc. Acts Jas. II, §13 heading, The Proclamation of generall peace: Of law-burrowes. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Crimes 142 Gif ane complains to the Schiref, and desires lawborrows of ane other man; and the Schiref doe not his office thereanent, he sall pay fourtie poundes. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process App. (ed. 2) 281 Interdictions, Inhibitions, and Law⁓burrows. 1864A. Leighton Leg. Edin. (1886) 171 Had forced the deacon to swear a lawborrows against him. 1884Manch. Exam. 18 Sept. 5/5 John Fraser, sheriff officer, raised an action of lawburrows against John Norrie Anderson.
fig.1636Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 174 Men would have law-borrows against Christ's cross. |