Scots Law. [f. LOCAL a.] trans. ‘To apportion an increase of salary to a minister among different landholders’ (Jam.); to lay the charge of such stipend on or upon a landholder or his land.
1593. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1816), IV. 34/1. To locall sufficient stipendis.
1695. J. Sage, Fund. Charter, Wks. (1844), I. 248. The Earl of Morton … had flattered the Church out of their possession of the thirds of the benefices,… promising instead thereof localled stipends upon the ministers.
a. 1768. [see LOCALITY 5 b].
1808. Act 48 Geo. III., c. 138 § 14. The Right of any Heritor to surrender his valued Teind in place of subjecting his Lands, to the Amount of the Stipend localled upon them, shall not be taken away.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xix. A clause, which had occurred in a process for localling his last augmentation of stipend.
1872. Bell’s Princ. Law Scot., § 1162 (ed. 6), 496. The localling or apportioning of the burden on the unexhausted teind is under the jurisdiction of the Court of Session as Commissioners of Teinds.
1877. in Cases Crt. Session, 4th Ser. IV. 1127. The proceedings shewed that at this time there was sufficient free teind without localling on heritors who had heritable rights. Ibid. The lands were localled on for stipend in an interim locality in 1853.
1880. Law Rep., App. Cases, V. 249. A scheme of locality was prepared, D lodged objections to the scheme in so far as it localled minister’s stipend on eighty-one acres of his land.
