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Definition of Outsets
1. outset [n] - See also: outset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outsets
Literary usage of Outsets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplement to Mr. Barton's Precedents in Conveyancing: Containing All the by Samuel Francis Thomas Wilde, Charles Barton (1826)
"Agreement on the Sale of a Ship and Freight for the Purchaser to pay the previous
Expence of outsets, $-c. WHEREAS AB, of, Sec., by writing or bill of sale ..."
2. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1899)
"My sons Isaac and Ber- goon are to have such outsets as my son Johanes has had,
and my daughters, ..."
3. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"But perhaps the outsets, or small farms occasionally let from the common, ...
The outsets lying by themselves and unfettered by the system of run-rig, ..."
4. Decisions of the Court of Session: From November 1825 to [20th July 1841] by John Tawse, F. Somerville, John Craigie, George Robinson, Scotland Court of Session, Charles Gordon Robertson, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) (1839)
"Notwithstanding that, when these outsets are let, they are frequently described,
as the measure of their extent or value, as being worth so many merks of ..."
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