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udal (iou)



udal noun. . L15.

Chiefly Hist. A form of freehold tenure requiring no service or acknowledgement of a superior, characteristic of Orkney and Shetland and formerly practised by other Scandinavian and early Germanic peoples; land held in this way. Usu. attrib.
attrib.: G. Barry These udal or allodial lands are directly opposed to fees or feus. Sir W. Scott The wide Udal possessions of their father..were divided betwixt the brothers.
? The usual form in Orkney and Shetland is udal.
udaller noun a tenant of land by udal right M17.