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Acre
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,...
God's acre
God's acre, a churchyard.
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Large acred
Possessing much land
Conacre
Conacre (Corn-acre), a sub-letting by an Irish tenant, for a season, of a part of his holding ready ploughed and prepared for a crop, Oxf. Dict.
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) ......
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...
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...
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...
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...
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