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Quotation dates: 1742, 1872
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OUT-TOLL, n.comb. Also utole. A nominal payment made to the bailie in a burgh by one resigning possession of burghal property. Hist.Abd. 1742 Fergusson Decisions (1775) 504:
The resignation of a tenement in Aberdeen in the year 1720 being made with the symbol of a penny utole, and not with the lawful symbols of staff and baston. Sc. 1872 C. Innes Sc. Legal Antiq. 91:
In the older burgh usages, burghal subjects were transferred by the bailie taking a penny for in-toll and a penny for ut-toll.
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