improbation

noun — 2 senses

improbation

noun

Etymology Latin improbatio.

1

disapproval

2

Law Scotland The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged.

  • the best expedient which Improbation occurred to the lawyers of those days , was afforded by the action of reduction - improbation1826, George Joseph Bell, Commentaries on the Law of Scotland and on the principles of Mercantile Jurisprudence:

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