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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Predial(l, Praedial(l, adj. [e.m.E. (1464), pertaining to farms, agrarian, rural, etc., med. L. prædialis f. L. prædium a farm etc., F. prédial.] a. Of a jurisdiction: Heritable, descending by inheritance. b. Of a right or a servitude: Attached to the land or other heritable property in question rather than to the person enjoying it at any given time. —1619 Sir J. Sempil Sac. Handled App. 37.
All predial tithes are … personal; they dischange euen the persons laborers. But all personall tithes cannot be held prediall Ib.
Praedial a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 2.
Temporall jurisdictiouns are either dative or praediall and patrimoniall 1699 Fountainhall Decis. II 34.
‘Tis at least a predial servitude, conform to which their possessions in the muir having been ever since regulated, it must yet [etc.]
