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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unstrublit, Wnstroblit, p.p. [Strubill v.] a. Of persons: Not harassed or pestered. = Untrublit p.p. 1. b. Of land: Not disturbed or interfered with. = Untrublit p.p. 2. —a. 1512 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 18.
To keip … the said Mungo Broun … in pecieble browking … in … the forsaid landis … to be unstrublit or poyndit for the malis 1519–20 Selkirk B. Ct. MS 78.
The said Jhone [is] to warand him unstrublit induring the tyme [of] his assedation [of] the tenement —b. 1482 Bk. Carlaverock II 440.
The grunde salbe wnstroblit in the meyne tyme be ather of the saidis pairtes
