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blanch holdings

blanch holdings is the plural of blanch holding.

Meaning of blanch holding

Noun

blanch holding (plural blanch holdings)

  1. (historical, Scots law) A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.
    • And be it enacted, That all Tenures of any Lands or Heretages in Scotland, that are now held or liable or be held of his Majesty by Ward Holding, whether simple or taxed Ward, are hereby enacted to be turned into Blanch Holding […]1876, Hugh Cowan, The Land Rights of Scotland: Being a Collection of the Entail, Conveyancing, and Other Statutes Relating to Land

Questions about blanch holdings

What is blanch holdings the plural of?
Blanch holdings is the plural of blanch holding.

Words near blanch holdings in the dictionary

  1. Blancases
  2. Blancett
  3. Blancetts
  4. blanch
  5. blanch holding
  6. blanch holdings
  7. blanch up
  8. blanchability
  9. blanchable
  10. Blanchard
  11. Blanchard lathe

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