lie
a Scots word used to introduce local names used in documents, or any Scots word or phrase brought into a Latin document.
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liege poustie
the same idea as somebody making a will ‘sound in mind’; it was that state of health which would give someone full and undoubted power to arrange for the disposal of his heritable property in the event of his death.
lieges
the word commonly used to mean ‘the subject of the Crown’