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Improvement of land

Improvement of land. The (English) Improvement of Land Acts, 1864 and 1899 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 114, and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 46), enumerate a number of 'im-provements' such as the following: (1) Drainage; (2) Irrigation and Warping; (3) Embanking from the sea, etc.; (4) Inclosing, and redivision of fields; (5) Reclamation; (6) Making roads, tramways, railways, and canals; (7) Clearing; (8) Erection and improvement of cottage and farm buildings; (9) Planting for shelter; (10) Construction of mills, etc.; (11) Construction of landing-places; and allowed tenants for life to charge the cost of such improvements upon the fee of a settled estate with the sanction of the In closure Commissioners, after notice to persons in remainder, and certain specifications and surveys;-the sanction of the Commissioners to be given 'if they found (s. 25) that the improvements would effect a permanent increase of the yearly vale of the lands proposed to be improved.' The Acts have been amended by the (English) Ag...

Logia

Logia, a small house, lodge, or cottage, Dugd. Mon., tom. 1, p. 400....

Rustici

Rustici, churls, clowns, or inferior country tenants, who held cottages and lands by the services of ploughing, and other labours of agriculture, for the lord. The land of such ignoble tenure was called by the Saxons gafalland, as afterwards socage tenure, and was sometimes distinguished by the name of terra rusticorum, Paroch. Antiq. 136...

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Cottagely - Law Dictionary Search Results

Improvement of land

Logia

Rustici

Bolhagium, or Boldagium

Divot

Smearcase

Cot

Bordage

Bordar

Bour