outlot

Noun

outlot (plural outlots)

1. A plot of undeveloped land, sometimes without access to public roads, designated by a developer on a plat for future construction or noted for its unsuitability to be designated a full lot.
   • The court ruled that although Moquino did not have any plans to build on his outlot, Ntchorere violated the owner's property rights by erecting a portion of her mansion on the eastern corner of the site.
   • Where the owner of land, in platting it, designated a small strip, 20 feet in width, lying between lots and the street, which he dedicated to the public, as an outlot, and numbered it with other similar strips, and did not use the land, and the public made no use of it, there was no intention shown...1902, “Evans et al. v. Welch et al.”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 68, Saint Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 776

   Synonyms:

   outparcel

2. (historical) A lot that corresponds with an in-town lot, being an open space on the edge of town where the owner can grow some crops and, in some cases, pasture some livestock.
   • We are next to inquire whether the proprietors of outlots, &c. are entitled to commonage. This question not only affects the interests of the holders of outlots, but has a material bearing, in one respect, on the next point which remains for examination. It depends on the construction of the act of...1838 September, Frederick Watts, “Carr v. Wallace”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, volume VII: May to September 1838, Kay and Brother, pages 398-399
   • In Louisiana and Missouri there were two chief forms of grants—urban and rural. These urban grants consisted of inlots, outlots, and common lands, very much like the Pennsylvania plan, but on a broader basis. The earliest settlers, for social reasons and protection, seemed to favor settling...1899, James Curtis Ballagh, “Southern Economic History: Tariff and Public Lands”, in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1898, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 257