Multure — Law Dictionary

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A payment in grain for grinding grain.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Scotch law. The quantity of grain or meal payable to the proprietor of a mill or to the multurer, his tacksman, for manufacturing the conis. Ersk. Inst. 2, 9, 19.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In old English law. A grinding of grain at a mill; the grain ground; the toll or fee due for grinding.

In Scots law. A duty paid for grinding in a mill; a quantity of grain payable for grinding.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

The grinding of grain; the toll paid therefor.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

In Scotch law, a miller's tolls. Multure is a quantity of grain payable to the proprietor of the mill by every person who comes to the mill to have his corn ground. The tenants and proprietors of some lands are bound by their tenure to use a particular mill; and these lands, so bound or restricted to the mill, are termed the thirl or the sucken, and the tenants or proprietors the insucken multurers; while those who use the mill without being bound to use it are called the out-town or outsucken multurers. And the payments of the former are called insucken multures, and those of the latter outsucken multures. Bell.