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EDICTAL CITATION Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

In Scotch law. A citation published at the market-cross ofEdinburgh, and pier and shore of Leith. Used against foreigners not within the kingdom,but having a landed estate there, and against natives out of the kingdom. Bell.

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