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Business

(aa)] Business is a wider term than 'trade' and may include hiring land and employing a manager to farm it, but does not include the activities of a mutual land society, composed of a number of persons

Burgh-mails

Burgh-mails, yearly payments to the Crown of Scotland, introduced by Malcolm III., and resembling the English fee-farm rents.

Jokelet

Jokelet [fr. yokelet], a little farm such as requires a small yoke of oxen to till it.

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Yokelet

Yokelet [fr. jocelet, Sax.], a little farm, requiring but a yoke of oxen to till it

Lease

the payment of a rent or other annual recompense. The ancient operative words were 'demise, lease, and to farm let,' or 'demise and lease.' The (English) Law of Property Act,1925, makes a distinction between leases for years

Tenant-right

rent than may be sanctioned by the general sentiment of the community; or entitling a tenant of a farm to receive purchase-money, amounting to so many year's rent, on its being transferred to another tenant. It has

Wort or worth

Wort or worth [fr. weorth, Sax.], a curtilage or country farm.

Wica

Wica, a country house or farm.

Way

thus where the inhabitants of a particular hamlet, or the owners or occupiers of a particular close or farm, have immemorially been used to cross a particular piece of land, a right of way is created by

Thelonio irrationabili habendo

Thelonio irrationabili habendo, a writ that formerly lay for him that had any part of the king's demesne in fee-farm, to recover reasonable toll of the king's tenants there, if his demesne had been accustomed to...

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