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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unlandit, ppl. adj. Also: unlandyt, -ed, wn-, onlandit. [e.m.E. vnlanded (1581); Landit adj.1] Not possessed of land, not belonging to the class of landed proprietors.(a) 14.. Acts I 84*/2.
Ony mysdoar … man or woman landit or vnlandit 1488 Acts II 207/1.
That all the gudis movabill belanging to the pure vnlandit folkis be restorit 1494 Acta Conc. I 324/1.
[To take security] of thaim ilke gentilman landit vnder the pain of [blank] ilke gentilman vnlandit jc merkis & ilke ȝem[an] xl li. that thai sall compere [etc.] 1518 Peebles Chart. 48.
Vnlandyt 1521–2 Fife Sheriff Ct. 275.
That ȝe tak sicker souerte of … ilk gentilman wnlandit Jc merkis 1522 Treas. Acc. V 201.
Ane generale letter … chargeing all the gentilmen unlandit … to be in Hadingtoun at my lord governour 1584 Reg. Privy C. III 661.
[All the] commounis, firmoraris, mailmen and unlandit men [in the army … may] pas hame 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Dvellvm.
Noble persones or landed men may fight in proper person or be vthers in their name … bot husband-men, ignoble, and vnlanded men, suld fight personallie a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 196.
Because [the judges] … wer not in use to modifie [lawburrows] heigh enoughe; … the paine of ane earle … is appoynted to be 2000 lib. … every gentilman unlanded 200 merks(b) 1568 Prot. Bk. W. Cumming 109b.
The said deput afferit to ressave sa monie as wes landit men souertes for the onlandit men 1570 Leslie 60.
That all the gudis … taken fra onlandit men and burgessis, sould be restorit … bot nocht that quhilk wes takin fra erles, lordis, barronis or landit men
