2. Adjective. restricted or confined; especially, in old Scottish law, describing land on which corn must be sent to a particular mill, paying multure or thirlage on it ¹
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Definition of Astricted
1. astrict [v] - See also: astrict
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astricted
Literary usage of Astricted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, James Ivory (1824)
"16068. t Found also, that the lessee of the mill is not entitled to any deduction
from his rent, on account of part of the astricted lands being laid in ..."
2. Principles of the Law of Scotland by John Erskine, George Moir (1881)
"The quantities paid to the mill by the lands not astricted are generally proportioned
to the value of the labour, and are called out-town or out-sucken ..."
3. Decisions of the Court of Session: From the Year 1733 to the Year 1754 ...by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Grant Elchies, William Maxwell Morison (1813)
"This last parcel was found also astricted for the bear that they consumed in -their
families, but for no/more bear; but the Court was divided as to the ..."
4. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"... the said lands of Dalmorton (being a distinct tenement from the lands of
Blairquhan, which hold of the King) cannot bo alleged to be astricted to the ..."
5. Principles of the Law of Scotland by John Erskine, George Moir, William Guthrie (1870)
"Where it is of the grana crescentia, the whole grain growing upon the ground is
astricted, with the exceptions (1) of seed and horse corn, ..."
6. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1831)
"Anderson and Miller further pleaded that they were not astricted, or at all events
only in grindable corns; but it is unnecessary specially to advert at ..."
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