Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Scots law, a mortgage, or bond and disposition in security.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Scots Law) A kind of pledge or mortgage.

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  • noun obsolete, Scotland The conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage
  • verb obsolete, Scotland To mortgage land

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Examples

  • It was at this time that Rob Roy acquired an interest by purchase, wadset, or otherwise, to the property of Craig Royston already mentioned.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Sandie Goldie, the silversmith, would do mickle for his honour; but there was little time to get the wadset made out; and, doubtless, if his honour

    Waverley 2004

  • Scottish proprietors who were enabled to take advantage of the wadset rights, he was grasping and merciless.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

  • Orkney and Shetland, however, remained part of Norway for two hundred years more, and have since 1468 been held by Scotland and afterwards by the United Kingdom only under a wadset or mortgage securing 58,000 crowns, the unpaid balance of the dower of Margaret, wife of James

    Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

  • The estates of Glengyle were pledged, or, as it is called in Scotland, "under a contract of wadset."

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

  • Buy braw troggin, &c. Here’s a little wadset, Buittle’s scrap o’ truth,

    Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election-No. 4 1909

  • ` ` It's a 'gowd, by Heaven!' said Elliot, having glanced at the contents; and then again addressing the Hermit, ` ` Muckle obliged for your good-will; and I wad blithely gie you a bond for some o the siller, or a wadset ower the lands o 'Wideopen.

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • It was at this time that Rob Roy acquired an interest by purchase, wadset, or otherwise, to the property of Craig Royston already mentioned.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • "Alas! an it please your Majesty," said the goldsmith, shaking his head, "it is the poor young nobleman's extreme necessity, and not his will, that makes him importunate; for he must have money, and that briefly, to discharge a debt due to Peregrine Peterson, Conservator of the Privileges at Campvere, or his haill hereditary barony and estate of Glenvarloch will be evicted in virtue of an unredeemed wadset."

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • Goldie, the silversmith, would do mickle for his honour; but there was little time to get the wadset made out; and, doubtless, if his honour

    Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

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