disclamation
(dɪskləˈmeɪʃən)
[n. of action from med.L. disclāmāre to disclaim.]
1. Sc. Law. The action of disclaiming on the part of a tenant, etc.: see disclaim v. 1, and cf. disclaimer1 1.
| 1592 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 604 (Jam.) With all richt.. be ressone of ward, nonentries..purprusionis, disclamatiounis, bastardrie [etc.]. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 176 Disclamation is that casualty whereby a vassal forfeits his whole feu to his superior, if he disowns or disclaims him without ground, as to any part of it. 1861 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 290 Disclamation signifies a vassal's disavowal..of a person as a superior, whether the person so disclaimed be the superior or not. |
2. Renunciation, repudiation, disclaimer.
| 1610 Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists §7 To speake as if before her late disclamation of Poperie..shee [Ch. of Engl.] had not beene. 1649 ― Cases Consc. 403 Let..servants..count their (infidell) masters worthy of all honour; not worthy therefore of desertion and disclamation. 1772 Scots Mag. 457 Mr. Wallace's disclamation of a late publication. 1814 Scott Wav. vi, The bibliopolist greeted him, notwithstanding every disclamation, by the title of Doctor. 1892 Stevenson & Osbourne Wrecker xvii. 275, I cannot tell with what sort of disclamation I sought to reply. |