Sc. Law. [ad. med.L. *excambiōn-em (= excambium), f. excambiāre: see EXCAMB.] Exchange or barter, spec. of land.

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[1540.  Sc. Acts Jas. V., 25 Feb. (1814), II. 366. And counsalis þe kingis grace … to geif for his gracis part of þe said excambium als mekle land … as [etc.].]

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1572.  Sempill Ballates (1872), 147. Sic vane excambion can I not considder As marrow tratours and the trew togidder.

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a. 1639.  Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot. (1655), 100. He gave in excambion the lands of Cambo in the same parish.

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1754.  Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 143. The grant, by which the lands are exchanged, is expressly said to be an excambion.

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1861.  W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., s.v., The land which he has received in excambion.

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