improbation

plural improbations

1. countableuncountabledisapproval

   Synonyms: censure, disapprobation, reprehension, attainder, attainture, attaintment, blame, censure

2. ScotlandcountableuncountablelawThe 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 - improbation

   1826, George Joseph Bell, Commentaries on the Law of Scotland and on the principles of Mercantile Jurisprudence