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20170701

FUTURE DEBT

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FUTURE DEBT. In Scotland this term is applied to a debt which though created is not due, but is to become so at a future day. 1 Bell's Com. 315, 5th ed.

QUOT

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QUOT, Scotch law. The twentieth part of the movables, computed without computation of debts, was so called.
2. Formerly the bishop was entitled, in all confirmations, to the quot of the testament. Ersk. Prin. B. 3, t. 9, n. 11.

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