Leasing-making, in Scotch law, means seditious words, which constituted an offence punishable with death by statutes of 1584 and 1585. The punishment was afterwards mitigated to fine and imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court.
Leasing-making
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 549
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