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rentaller Sc.|ˈrɛntələ(r)|
Also 6 -alar, 6–7 -aler.
[f. prec. n. or vb. + -er1.]
One who holds land on a rental; a ‘kindly tenant’.
1578Exch. Rolls Scot. (1899) XX. 370 note, It will pleis your lordschip resaif this berar as rentalar in our souerane lordes regester. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Curialitas, In sik maner as gif he were proprietare, lyfe-rentar, tackesman or rentaller. 1640–1Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 95 It is appoyntit, that all rentallers be valued as weill as the heritores. 1666in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 421/1 That a remedy may be prowided wher they have taks or are rentalers. a1768Erskine Inst. Law Scot. ii. vi. §37 (1773) 267 It is the most probable opinion, that as rentals were granted from a special regard to the rentaller, they were accounted rights of liferent. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 566 The rentallers of Lochmaben, who were formerly servants to the Scottish Kings, have rights which may be transferred to strangers. 1880Academy 8 May 334/1 By virtue of which the widow of a rentaller was entitled to retain possession of the lands during her widowhood. |