Obs. Sc. [f. FLEMING1 + lauche, Sc. form of LAW.] An old Scotch law which allowed the Flemings who settled in Scotland the practice of their own usages.
1629. in W. Robertson, Index Rec. Charters (1798), 61. Carta to John Marr … una cum Lege Flemynga dicitur Fleming Lauche.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, II. IV. iv. 735. They [the Flemings] behaved so quietly, as to be allowed the practice of their own usages, by the name of Fleming-lauche, in the nature of a special custom.
