casualty of superiority

English

Noun

casualty of superiority (plural casualties of superiority)

  1. (Scots law, historical) In the feudal law of Scotland, any emolument arising to the superior depending on uncertain events: those of nonentry, relief or composition, and escheat alone remaining, but considerably modified by the Conveyancing Act of 1874.
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