insicht
Scots term for furniture, or household goods.
Your Scottish Archives Glossary
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instant, Inst (abbr.)
Latin term meaning ‘this’: used in dates referring to this month, eg: ‘on the 5th inst.’ Meaning on the 5th of this month
instrument
a formal document created by a notary-public and authenticated by him; after the Reformation they are generally instruments of sasine, which constituted the only legal evidence of the giving of possession of a piece of heritable property; before then, they could be about anything that the clients required.