escambio
(UK, legal, obsolete) A licence formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another person overseas.
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(UK, legal, obsolete) A licence formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another person overseas.
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An obsolete Scottish legal term for the verb excamb, meaning to exchange lands or property. Scottish law allowed the exchange of lands by an agreement called an excambion, and excambie was the verbal form of that transaction. Entirely archaic and of interest only to historians of Scots law.
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