inlot

plural inlots

1. historicalAn in-town lot (parcel of land), called by this name only when being contrasted with a corresponding outlot.

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   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 together. The rural grants varied from several hundred to thousands of acres, the league square, consisting of 7,056 arpents, not being unusual.

   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

   The general position of the [Perrysburg, Ohio] town site with reference to surrounding sections is shown in Figure 8 taken from the State Auditor's records. The state records show the adjoining fractional sections subdivided into a diagonal system of parcels, by what authority it is not clear. The inlots and outlots within the town tract were surveyed and offered for sale by the United States in accordance with the plat of which Plate 33 is a reduced copy.

   1925, C.E. Sherman, Original Ohio Land Subdivisions, volume III: Volume III of Final Report (in Four Volumes), Ohio Co-operative Topographic Survey, Press of the Ohio State Reformatory, page 150