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UDAL (Dan. odel)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UDAL (
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Dan. odel)  , a
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kind of right still existing in
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Orkney and
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Shetland, and supposed to be a relic of the old allodial mode of landholding existing antecedently to the growth of
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feudalism in
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Scotland (see
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ALLODIUM) . The
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udal
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tenant holds without
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charter by uninterrupted
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possession on
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payment to the
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Crown, the
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kirk, or a grantee from the Crown of a
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tribute called scat (
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Dan.
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skat), or without such payment, the latter right being more strictly the udal right . Udal lands descend to all the
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children equally . They are convertible into feus at the
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option of the udallers .

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