land 1 : an area of the earth usually inclusive of improvements, bodies of water, and natural or man-made objects and extending indefinitely upward and downward compare air right 2 : an estate, interest, or right in land [ means both surface and mineral rights "California Public Resources Code"] ...
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Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every species of ground, soil or earth, whatso-ever, as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furze and heath; it includes also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards to the globe's centre, hence the maxim, Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos; or, more curtly expressed, Cujus est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a.In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of the Act includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether th...
Land appurtenant, means not a land contiguous to some other land but the very land which is a part of the same plot or area which contains the building or dwelling house, State of Uttar Pradesh v. L.J. Johnson, (1983) 4 SCC 110: AIR 1983 SC 1303 (1308). [Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976, s. 2(g)]...
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Land boundary, means the limit of a landholding, usu. described by linear measurements of the borders, by points of the compass or by stationary markers, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 882....
Land certificate, means a document entitling a person to receive from the government a certain amount of land by following prescribed legal steps. It contains an official description of the land, as well as the name and address of the person receiving the entitlement, and is prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters it contains. Also termed land warrant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 882....
Land charge, means a rent or annuity or principal moneys charged otherwise than by deed upon land under (English) Act of Parliament for securing to any person, the money spent by him, or under that Act, as a charge under the Land Drainage Act, 1861 (see DRAINAGE), or s. 20 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, for repayment of compensa-tion of tenant's improvements. See s. 4 of the Land Charges Registration and Searches Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 51), by s. 12 of which a 'land charge,' created after the commencement of that Act-i.e., after 1st January, 1889-is void against a purchaser for value of the land charged therewith, unless it has been registered in the 'Register of Charges,' in the manner mentioned in that Act, since transferred to the Land Registry by virtue of the Land Charges Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 26), repealed by the Land Charges Act,1925. By this Act the system of compulsory registration of charges over land has been greatly extended and no purchaser of land woul...
Land Commissioners, the title by the (English) Settled Land Act, 1882, s. 48, of the Commissioners formerly called 'The Copyhold Inclosure and Tithe Commissioners.' By s. 26 of that Act, a certificate of these Commissioners that an 'improvement' within that Act has been effected is, in the absence of an Order of the Court, an authority to trustees to pay for the improvement out of 'capital money,' and by s. 28 a tenant for life must maintain and repair an 'improvement' at his own expense during such period, if any, as the Commissioners by certificate in any case prescribe.All powers and duties of the Land Commissioners were transferred to the Board of Agriculture by the (English) Board of Agriculture Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 30)....
land contract : land installment contract at contract ...