Definition of Runrig

1. a form of land-tenure [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Runrig

runnions
runny
runny nose
runny noses
runoff
runoffs
runological
runologist
runologists
runology
runout
runouts
runover
runovers
runproof
runrig (current term)
runrigs
runround
runrounds
runs
runs about
runs around
runs away
runs back
runs batted in
runs by
runs for
runs out
runs over
runs through

Literary usage of Runrig

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"DIVISION OF runrig LANDS. § 1. The act of Parliament. THIS action is also founded on a statute of the same reign, ie 169-5, c. 23, which sets forth, ..."

2. A Practical View of the Statute Law of Scotland: From the Year MCCCCXXIV, to by James Watson (1828)
"... town, or hundred, shall be liable to pay the damages, as in the case of riots under the statute 1. of Geo. I. Hume, I. 429. runrig. ..."

3. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1829)
"runrig Lands—The respondent, Bogle, in 1824, raised enaction before the Sheriff-depute of Lanarkshire, on the act 1695, cap. 23, for the division of certain ..."

4. Arran of the Bens, the Glens & the Brave by Mackenzie MacBride (1911)
"ARRAN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE OLD runrig SYSTEM AT the beginning of the eighteenth century Arran was in much the same condition as the rest of the ..."

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