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Acre [fr. aypos, Gr.; ager, Lat.; acker, Germ.], a measure of land. The extent of the acre was first defined by statute in the 33 Edw. I., according to which an acre contains 160 square perches, the then perch being 5' yards. See Blount's Law Dict. The imperial or standard English acre contains 4 roods, each rood 40 poles or perches, each pole 272' square feet, and consequently each acre = 43,560 square feet or 4,840 square yards. See (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1878. The French acre, arpent, contains 1' English acres, or 54,450 square English feet. The Welsh acre contains commonly 2 English acres. The Irish acre is equal to 7,840 square yards; the Scots to 6,150-2/5 square yards....
ACRS
ACRS Accelerated Cost Recovery System ...
God's acre
God's acre, a churchyard....
Permissible area
Permissible area, in relation to a land-owner or a tenant, means thirty standard acres and where such thirty standard acres on being converted into ordinary acres exceeds sixty acres such sixty acres. Provided that (i) ... (ii) for a displaced person - (a) who has been allotted land in excess of fifty standard acres, the permissible area shall be fifty standard acres or one hundred acres, as the case may be; (b) who has been allotted land in excess of thirty standard acres, but less than fifty standard acres, the permissible area shall be equal to his allotted area; (c) who has been allotted land less than thirty standard acres the permissible area shall be thirty standard acres, including any other land or part thereof, it any, that he owns in addition. Explanation: For the purposes of determining the permissible area of a displaced person, the provisions of proviso (ii) shall not apply to the heirs and successors of the displaced person to whom land is allotted. Munshi Ram v. Financi...
Caballeria
An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knights fee hence in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish a land measure of varying size In Cuba it is about 33 acres in Puerto Rico about 194 acres in the Southwestern United States about 108 acres...
Small holdings
Small holdings. The (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, by s. 61 gives the following definition:-The expression 'small holding' means an agri-cultural holding which exceeds one acre and either does not exceed fifty acres or, if exceeding fifty acres, is at the date of sale or letting of an annual value for the purposes of income tax not exceeding one hundred pounds [as amended by the (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 52), s. 16]....
Bigha
A measure of land in India varying from a third of an acre to an acre...
Carucate
Carucate [fr. Carucata terr'], Carvage,or Carve of land, a plough-land of 100 acres, or according to Skene, as much land as may be tilled in a year and a day by one plough, Ken. Glos. 'And one plow land, carucata terr', or a hide of land, hida terr' (which is all one), is not of any certain content, but as much as a plow can by course of husbandry plough in a year.'-Co. Litt. 69 a. This quantity varies in different counties from 60 to 120 acres.Case, includes a suit or any proceeding before a court. [Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987), s. 2(1)(a)]Means--(1) A trial. (2) A trial involving some point of law so important as to be published in Law Reports (see that title) for future use as a precedent. (3) A statement of facts and documents, raising a point of law, submitted for the opinion of counsel. See PRECEDENTS. (4) includes a suit or any proceeding before a court. [Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987), s. 2 (1) (a)]. (5) The expression 'case' is not limit...
Cottage holding
Cottage holding, means a holding comprising a dwelling house, together with not less than a quarter of an acre and not more than one acre of agricultural land which can be cultivated by the occupier of the dwelling house and his family, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 5, p. 6....
Worship, Place of
Worship, Place of, defined in Stradlng v. Higgins, (1932) 1 Ch 143, for the purposes of the Places of Worship (Enfranchisement) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 56), which enables trustees of a leasehold interest in places of public worship to enlarge the interest into the freehold in not more than two acres, subject to the provisions of the act.The Places of Worship Sites Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 50), as extended by the Amendment Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 21), enabled sites not exceeding one acre to be conveyed for purposes of worship. See also PUBLIC WORSHIP....
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