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Outtoll, Uttol(l, n. Also: outtol(l)e, -toil(l, outetolle, owttolle; (out hoill); utole. [Out a., Toll n.] = Outpen(n)y n.In two early instances (1283, 1293) in Glasgow, otherwise (1317 onwards) only in Aberdeen: see In-toll n. for further examples. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. (Latin ed. 1609) i. 139 b (marg.).
& vnus dabit praeposito, vnum denarium [gl. qui denarius vulgo dicitur out hoill] pro exitu de terra, & alius dabit [etc.] 1462 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 292.
Magister Thomas Edname [Mansum suum de Clat] … per vnum denarium de outtole resignauit 1464 Ib. 287.
Datore saisine … per … vnum denarium de intollis et alium denarium de outtollis secundum consuetudines burgorum atque leges 1489 Ib. II. 302.
Owttolle 1497 Ib. I. 339.
Andree Cullan senioris vnius balliuorum dicti burgi per certos denarios de outtole sursum reddidit [etc.] 1538 Prot. Bk. Sir J. Cristisone 61.
[An annual rent of 6/8 to be uplifted from his lands … by earth and stone and one penny of] outtoil 1538 Ib. 62, 1543 Ib. 84.
Outtoill 1742 J. Fergusson Decis. (1775) 504.
That the resignation of an annualrent out 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, was therefore, upon the Act of Sederunt 1708, void and null