letters of horning

English

Noun

letters of horning pl (plural only)

  1. (law, Scotland) The process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for letters of horning in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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