† Fleming-lauchen.
Obsolete. Scottish.
An old Scottish law which allowed the Flemings who settled in Scotland the practice of their own usages.
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Fleming-lauche?c1629
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?c1629 in W. Robertson Index Rec. Charters Scotl. (1798) 61 Carta to John Marr..una cum Lege Flemynga dicitur Fleming Lauche.
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. 735 The Flemings..behaved so quietly, as to be allowed the practice of their own usages, by the name of Fleming-lauche, in the nature of a special custom.
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