单词 | in steelbow |
释义 | > as lemmasin steelbow 2. The kind of tenancy or contract by which farming stock is hired on the condition that the tenant renders up on the expiration of his tenancy the same quantity and value that he received; esp. in phrase in steelbow. Also attributive, as steelbow lease, steelbow rent, steelbow tenant, steelbow tenancy. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > types of farm tenure steelbow1434 rundale1474 runrig1525 crofting1851 mock1862 métayage1877 1434 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1880) IV. 596 Pro herbagio 96 vaccarum domini regis, locatarum in steilbow infra domin[i]um de Stewartoun. 1507 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 221/1 His ground and Manys of Dunbar, quhilk the said reverend fader had in tak and stelebow of his hienes. 1733 in W. R. Mackintosh Glimpses of Kirkwall (1887) 126 And beside there is a steilbow upon the lands of Yairsay of horses, oats, and bear. 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 443 The rent was frequently paid in kind, or in what was called half-labour, by the steel-bow tenants, like the metayers of France. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1321 In such a case the straw and dung are said to be held in steelbow. 1911 A. W. Renton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 104/2 Up to 1848 or 1850 there existed in Scotland ‘Steelbow’ leases..the tenant..paying in addition to the ordinary rent a steel~bow rent of 5% on the value of the stock. < as lemmas |
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