outdweller

Noun

outdweller (plural outdwellers)

1. One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.
   • I apprehend the churchyard of a parish belongs in different ways both to the minister and the churchwardens; for I take the soil or surface to belong in general to the minister, and the interior part to the parishioners for burial; and consequently I think that no foreigner or outdweller ought to...1842, Richard Burn, The Ecclesiastical Law - Volume 1, page 258
   • A modus of 4d. per acre for ancient pasture lands in the hands of an outdweller, the land continuing in pasture, may be good; but where in a suit brought to establish such a modus, there was evidence that payments of 1s. per acre had been made by inhabitants as moduses, and that on an issue...1842, Leonard Shelford, The Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales, page 211
2. One who lives outside the current locale; an outsider or non-citizen.
   • Even in the case with which we started, the outdweller from civilization, who supplies all his own wants and those of his family, produces only for his and their consumption.1895 March, J.M. Ludlow, “Some Words On the Ethics of Coöperative Production”, in Atlantic Monthly, volume 75
   • If any burgess be appealed of a plea whereon wager of battle may issue by a villein or outdweller, let him defend himself by oath, that is to say by the 36 men, unless he is challenged in respect of a crime that the law requires him to defend by battle, in no case ought a burgess to fight against a...1907, Antiquities of Sunderland and Its Vicinity - Volumes 5-7, page 73