Also 5–6 Sc. transump, 5–7 transsumpt, 7 transumt. [ad. med.L. tran(s)sumpt-um transcript (Du Cange), f. ppl. stem of L. tran(s)sūmĕre (see prec.). Cf. OF. transumpt (15th c. in Godef.).] A copy, transcript; spec. a copy of a record, deed, or other legal document; an exemplification. (Chiefly in Sc. legal use from 16th c. to c. 1870.) Hence, action or decree of transumpt.
1480. Acta Dom. Conc. (1839), 50/1. Þe originale letter … or elles ane autentic transump þerof.
1541. [see TRANSUME 1].
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (Camden), 195. The transumpt of the said brief was sent to the King’s agents.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 54. What are the Ten Commandments … but a Transumt,… Abstract or rather extended Copie of the Law of Nature given to man in the beginning?
1693. Stair, Inst. Law Scot. (ed. 2), IV. xxxi. § 4. Although there be no express obligment to grant Transumpts, yet the Interest in common Evidents, is a sufficient Title to cause them be produced, to be Transumed.
1752. J. Louthian, Form of Process (ed. 2), 283. For every Sheet of Decreets of Transumpt … 0 14 6 Scots Money.
1755. Carte, Hist. Eng., IV. 118. A transumpt or copy was now taken of it.
1765–8. Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., IV. i. § 53. 657. An action or transumpt,… is competent to any person who has a partial interest in a writing,… against him in whose custody the writing lies, to exhibit it. Ibid. When a decree of transumpt is questioned upon a ground of falsehood alledged against the writing transumed.
1810. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, II. III. vi. 274. The citizens of Edinburgh … paid the money on the production of such a transumpt.
1878. Dixon, Hist. Ch. Eng., I. iii. 151, note. An instrument made on a transumpt of the Breve. Ibid. A definition of transumpt, the word lately revived in the State Papers, for a copy made by authority, or an attested copy.
† b. A pictorial representation, sketch, or engraving (of a work of art). Obs. rare–1.
1629. Maxwell, Herodian, b j, margin. His [Commodus’] naked Statue (as he plaid the Gladiator) is extant at Rome in the Fernesian Palace. See the Transumpt of it in M. G. Sandy’s Iournall, p. 271.
