BOLMAN, N. Bu-madr, rusticus, inquilinus, A husbandman, a yearly tenant or tenant at will.
BONDER, N. Bondi, Bonde, paterfamilias, colonus, An Odaller.
BORD-LAND, N. Bord, mensa, cibus, The guest quarters of the King or Jarl, and therefore exempt from skatt.
Bota-Mali, (N.) Offences expiable by compensation or damages to the injured party, or by Mulcts shared between him and the Crown, which derived no small part of its revenue from this source and from the Obota-mali (quod vide).
BULL, N. Bol, Bu, prædium nobile, The principal farm of the Odalsjord; sometimes called HEAD BULL, N. Hofd-bu, or Chemisplace, Dan. Hjems, domus.
CAN, N. Kanna, A measure = 1
45 of a Barrel.
CHETTRY, Revenue arising from the Scottish Casualty of Escheit.
COMMONTY. Each Tun possessed its own Sœttur or Infield Common; each Skat-hald or Hrepp, its Hagi or Hill Pasture, shared exclusively by the Hreppismen of its Tuns; and each Herad its Moar, common to every Hrepp and Tun of that Vard Thing, but to none else.
COST, Grain Rent, generally commuted at ⅓ of Meal and ⅔ of Malt or of raw grain.
CUTTEL, ELL, N. Alin, ulna, A measuring rod of the length of a Scottish Ell, used in Zetland as the fundamental unit of Length and of Valuation. A Cuttel of Wadmæl long bore a Standard value of 6d. Scots—6 cuttels being equal to an Eyrie or “Ure” of Valuation; 20 Cuttels = to a sheep, and six score or a “Large Hundred” to an ox. The value of the cuttel was raised to 2 shillings by Earl Robert.