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surrogating
Nfld, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the process of moving from station to station holding surrogate court.
See: surrogate court
Quotations
1793
The time of surrogating was looked forward to as a season when all wrongs were to be redressed against all oppressors; and this naval judicature was flown to by the poor inhabitants and planters, as the only refuge they had from the west country merchants, who were always their creditors, and who were generally regarded as their oppressors.