warrandice

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warrandice - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Warrandice \War"ran*dice\, n. [See Warrantise.] (Scots Law)
     The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a
     right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every
     claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior
     to the conveyance; warranty. [Written also warrandise.]
     --Craig.
     [1913 Webster]

warrandice - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  WARRANDICE, Scotch law. A clause in a charter of heritable rights by which 
  the grantor obliges himself, that the right conveyed shall be effectual to 
  the receiver. It is either personal or real. A warranty. Ersk. Pr. B. 2, t. 
  3, n. 11.