Definition of Muirburn

1. the seasonal burning of heather [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muirburn

mugwumpery
mugwumpish
mugwumpism
mugwumpisms
mugwumps
muhajir
muhajireen
muhajirun
muhlies
muhly
muid
muids
muil
muils
muir-torre syndrome
muirburn (current term)
muirburns
muirite
muirs
muishond
muist
muisted
muisting
muists
mujahadeen
mujahadein
mujahadin
mujahed
mujahedeen
mujahedin

Literary usage of Muirburn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical View of the Statute Law of Scotland: From the Year MCCCCXXIV, to by James Watson (1828)
"muirburn. The original statutes on this subject were 1424, cap. 20, and 1535, cap. 11. But they are superseded by 13; Geo. III. cap. 54, above quoted. ..."

2. A Handy Book of the Game and Fishery Laws by George Colwell Oke (1863)
"5 enacts,—"That the tenant, possessor or occupier If any muir- of the ground upon which such muirburn shall be made or covered with- discovered within the ..."

3. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"131 (1853.) Militia—42 Geo. III. c. 90 and til ; 15 und 16 Viet. c. 50 (English Act) ; 17 and 18 Viet. c. 106 and 108 (1854), (Scotland.) muirburn—13 Geo. ..."

4. Treatise on the Offices of Justice of Peace, Constable, Commissioner of by Gilbert Hutcheson (1806)
"... various regulations were $ 8. enacted touching muirburn, that is, the practice of fetting fire to the heath, in order to clear the fields. ..."

5. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"Sir Robert Gordon brought a process against the said Tenants, setting forth, that, in May and June 1762, when no muirburn was lawful, they had kindled a ..."

6. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1773)
"... who (hall make muirburn, or fet fire to any heath or frit and Tub. muir, in that part of Great Britain called See/land, from the ?ч°'"1 of" eleventh day ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, William Guthrie (1876)
"20, prohibits muirburn until less.c. 20. the last day of March, ... After a long interval the statutory prohibition of muirburn was [471] revived by British ..."

8. A Practical View of the Statute Law of Scotland: From the Year MCCCCXXIV, to by James Watson (1828)
"muirburn. The original statutes on this subject were 1424, cap. 20, and 1535, cap. 11. But they are superseded by 13; Geo. III. cap. 54, above quoted. ..."

9. A Handy Book of the Game and Fishery Laws by George Colwell Oke (1863)
"5 enacts,—"That the tenant, possessor or occupier If any muir- of the ground upon which such muirburn shall be made or covered with- discovered within the ..."

10. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"131 (1853.) Militia—42 Geo. III. c. 90 and til ; 15 und 16 Viet. c. 50 (English Act) ; 17 and 18 Viet. c. 106 and 108 (1854), (Scotland.) muirburn—13 Geo. ..."

11. Treatise on the Offices of Justice of Peace, Constable, Commissioner of by Gilbert Hutcheson (1806)
"... various regulations were $ 8. enacted touching muirburn, that is, the practice of fetting fire to the heath, in order to clear the fields. ..."

12. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"Sir Robert Gordon brought a process against the said Tenants, setting forth, that, in May and June 1762, when no muirburn was lawful, they had kindled a ..."

13. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1773)
"... who (hall make muirburn, or fet fire to any heath or frit and Tub. muir, in that part of Great Britain called See/land, from the ?ч°'"1 of" eleventh day ..."

14. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, William Guthrie (1876)
"20, prohibits muirburn until less.c. 20. the last day of March, ... After a long interval the statutory prohibition of muirburn was [471] revived by British ..."

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