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Free soil
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Free-board, or freebord
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Nematoda
round and generally smooth body the roundworms They are mostly parasites in plants and animals but some are free living in soil or water Also called Nematoidea
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Tenure
mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term … tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right
Fishery
Fishery, the right to take fish. Fisheries are either free, common, or several. A free fishery is the exclusive right of fishing in a public river, and is … another man's water, and he that has it, according to Blackstone, 'must also be the owner of the soil' (2 Bl. Com. 40). This position of Blackstone, however, has been questioned, and the distinction between the various
Copyhold
subject to the lord's rights to minerals and access thereto, the enfranchised owner may disturb or remove the soil so far as is necessary for the purpose of making roads or drains or erecting buildings or obtaining … manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only
Manor
warren, fisheries and hunting and shooting been affected subject to the enfranchised copyholder's right to disturb or remove soil for roads or building purposes, but Manorial Courts have been abolished, the lord's right to escheat has been … the owner of an estate in fee carving out other estates in fee to be held by other freeholders as his tenants. A manor consists of demesnes and services: of demesnes, that is, of lands of which
Water and watercourse
v. Londonderry Ry., 1905 AC 301, and may be liable for damage caused by neglect which prevents the free flow of water, Finch v. Bannister, (1908) 2 KB 441; he is also entitled to receive the water … with water.'-Brownl. 142. See POOL. By granting a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not. Water being a movable, wandering thing, there can be only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein.
Fixtures
as may be thus shown: (1) Between landlord and tenant. If the chattels be not let into the soil, they are not fixtures at all, and may be removed at will, like any other species of personal … be removed at will, like any other species of personal property. When the chattel is connected with the free-hold, by being let into the earth, or by being cemented or otherwise united to some erection attached to
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