a. and sb. Sc. Chiefly Law. Also 6 summair, sommair, sumare, 7–8 summer. [a. F. sommaire, with subsequent assimilation to its source, L. summārius SUMMARY.]
A. adj. = SUMMARY a.
1585. Jas. I., Ess. Poesie (Arb.), 36. Ane rype ingyne,… With sommair reasons, suddenlie applyit.
1593. J. Napier, Discov. Rev. St. John, Orac., T 4 b. In summar conclusion, if thou O Rome alledges thy self reformed [etc.].
1617. Acts Parl. Scot., Jas. VI. (1816), IV. 550/1. Quhairby goode and summer Justice may be done.
1628. Mure, Doomesday, 83. A summar processe shall ensew.
1678. G. Mackenzie, Crim. Laws Scot., II. viii. § 7 (1699), 196. The Pursuer, or Defender, being convict … without any Probation, except summar Cognition.
1693. Stair, Inst. Law Scot., IV. iii. § 25. A Summar Action is of two sorts.
1838. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scotl., s.v. Rolls of Court, The Summar roll is appropriated to such causes as require dispatch.
1868. Act 31 & 32 Vict., c. 100 § 63. The Court … shall hear Parties in the Summar Roll.
† B. sb. = SUMMARY sb. 1. Obs.
1570. Buchanan, Admonit., Wks. (1892), 22. The summar is this.
1595. in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ., V. 360. The sumare of a letter sent by Mr. Freeman.
