Sc. [f. SUB- 9 (b) + SET v.] trans. To underlet, sublet.
1681. Stair, Inst. Law Scot., I. xiii. 253. As the half may be sub-sett, so any other right less then the value of the half, is sustained as an Infeftment of warrandice.
1752. Scots Mag., Nov., 551/2. A small farm…, which he had subset at about 6 l. Sterling per annum.
1801. Farmer’s Mag., Nov., 381. A missive of tack,… which made no mention of assignees,… was … found, neither capable of being assigned, nor subset.
1806. Scott, Fam. Lett. (1894), I. 35. I have subset the whole of the sheep farm.
1838. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., 582. To assign or subset a lease of the ordinary endurance of nineteen years.
b. absol. or intr.
1801. Farmer’s Mag., Nov., 379. A tack of lands does not imply a power, either to assign, or even to subset.
1838. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., 582. In such leases … an express authority to assign or subset must be given.
Hence Subsetting vbl. sb.; Subsettable a., capable of being subset.
a. 1722. Fountainhall, Decis., I. 454. The axiom against sub-setting is only against an assignment…. But a sub-set is lawful, and was so found 12 March 1686.
1765–8. Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., II. vi. § 33 (1773), 265. It remains a doubt, whether the power of subsetting is implied in the nature of a tack, without a special clause. Ibid. By a subset the principal tacksman is not changed.
1801. Farmer’s Mag., Nov., 379. All tacks, likewise, that are to subsist for a great length of time, are also assignable, as well as subsettable.
