a feudal casualty.  This was the rents from a dead feuar’s property which fell due to his superior until the feuar’s heir was entered with the superior.

was when a person was considered to be incapable of performing a certain act of the grounds of youth, and was generally applied to those under 21; it might be found spelt ‘non-age’, and a minor might be said to ‘be in nonage’

strictly, any document drawn up by a notary. The document referred to as such in the late nineteenth century may concern the adoption of a trust by trustees, or the addition of new trustees, but there are various other forms.

in the middle ages, almost invariably a churchman who had been admitted to practice by the authority of the Pope or the Holy Roman Emperor.  But there seem to have been little to stop anyone who could write from setting himself up as a notary, and the authority of some them to do so and their trustworthiness were, to say the least, doubtful – Scottish parliaments were much concerned about ‘false notars’.  After the Reformation, they were regulated to become public functionaries who, on passing an examination and trial were admitted by the Court of Session to the power of making instruments which had ‘faith in law’; these could be about any ‘lawful and honest business’ but in practice were usually instruments of sasine.

a charter containing a clause in which the superior of a property grants it ‘of new’, usually because there was a defect in the original title to the property or because either the feuar or superior wanted to get the conditions of the original grant altered.