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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1575-1609
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In-suitar, Insoytour, n. [In adv.; Suitar, Suitour n.] A suitor in a baronial court residing within the barony. — c1575 Balfour Pract. 38.
Than aucht the serjand to call the suitaris anis simply, in the first the out-suitaris of the court, gif thair be ony, and syne the in-suitaris 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. i. 100.
The insoytours
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