Also 7–9 erron. -ferrence. [ad. L. type *transferentia (used in med. or mod.L.; e.g., a. 1541 by Paracelsus), f. transferent-em: see next and -ENCE.]
1. The action or process of transferring; conveyance from one place, person, or thing to another; transfer.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), I. 141. The transference was not difficult.
1776. Adam Smith, W. N., V. ii. II. 467. The transference of stock or moveable property.
1791. Newte, Tour Eng. & Scot., 127. In Argyleshire … it became common to convey land, and make other transferences of property in writing.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xv. (1842), 323. Moderately-sized funnels … to assist in the transference of gas into vessels.
1839. Morn. Herald, 13 June. A transference of power to the moneyed classes.
1875. Lubbock, Wild Flowers, i. 8. The transference of the pollen from one flower to another is … effected principally either by the wind or by insects.
1880. Swinburne, Stud. Shaks., 258. A line too apt and exquisite to endure without injury the transference from its original setting.
1885. Watson & Burbury, Math. Th. Electr. & Magn., I. 222. There is a transference, per unit time, of electricity I from the extremity A to the extremity of B.
2. Sc. Law. The procedure by which a depending action is transferred from a person deceased to his representative.
1681. Stair, Inst. Law Scot., xv. § 10. 322. The Decreet will be effectual against all singular Successors, and subsequent Tennents without a new Decreet of Transferrence.
1765–8. Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., IV. i. § 60. If the pursuer be dead, it is called a transference activè.… Where the defender dies, it gets the name of a transference passivè. Ibid. Yet a transference cannot proceed against a debtor’s apparent heir, till the annus deliberandi be expired.
1838. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., 999. Transferences are competent to inferior judges, only when the representatives reside within their jurisdiction, and the principal cause is in dependence before them.
