recognition
a feudal casualty, which entailed the return of a feuar’s lands to his superior on the grounds that he had sold or granted out the greater part of them without the superior’s consent.
Your Scottish Archives Glossary
The Your Scottish Archives Glossary defines archaic words and phrases, mostly Scots law terminology, commonly found in documents and records in Scotland’s archives. If you think a word or phrase should be added to the glossary, or an existing entry could be defined better, please contact us at your@scottisharchives.org.uk.
You can also use the Dictionary of the Scots Language as a further resource at https://dsl.ac.uk/ for Scots words and phrases (including legal terminology).
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Example: to find the term “roup” select section “R” then sub-section “Ro”
recordkeeping
a generic term covering the full range of specialisms in archives and records management.
records management
the systematic control of records during creation, use, maintenance and disposition, to enable efficient and cost-effective access to information when required and disposal of that information when no longer required.
records retention and disposal schedule
the method of identifying records created by an organisation, determining how long they should be kept and whether they should be destroyed or transferred to an archive service when they are no longer required for business use.