notour

/ ˈnəʊtə /

adjective

1. Scots law short for notorious

Example Sentences

Especially it is notour in the memory of this present age, how in the year 1655, a vigorous defensive war was prosecuted against the duke of Savoy, by their captains Ginavel, Jahier, &c. which was espoused by many protestant princes.

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Let it be considered, what men might have done in such a case before government was erected, if there had been some public and notour murderers still preying upon some sort of men.

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Whether a testimony against a wicked law must not be notour for my testimony must make it evident that the law is not obeyed by me, else it is no testimony.

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The surveyor of Naphtali, in the place above cited, 'Grants legal self-defence against the sovereign, by way of plea in court, for safety of a man's person or estate,—as also is the case of most habited, notour and complete tyranny against law, to the destruction of the body of a people, and of all known legal liberties, and the being of religion according to law.—And in case of his not being in his natural and right wits.'—Hence,

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That the person to be executed, hath not only transgressed that law, but his disobedience to the law is notour.

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