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open fields doctrine

open fields doctrine : a doctrine in criminal procedure: law enforcement officers may make a warrantless search of the area outside of the curtilage of a person's home without violating the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution called also open fields rule ...


Open field doctrine

Open field doctrine, means the rule permitting a warrantless speech of the area outside a property owner's cartilage, which includes the home and any adjoining land (such as a yard) that is within an enclosure or otherwise protected from public scrutiny, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1118....


Campestral

Relating to an open field growing in a field or open ground...


Landa

Landa, an open field; a field cleared from wood, Old Records....


Campaign

An open field a large open plain without considerable hills SeeChampaign...


Beria, Berie, or Berry

Beria, Berie, or Berry, a large open field. Those cities and towns in England which end with this word are built on plain and open places, and do not derive their names from boroughs, as Spelman imagines; the true sense of the word berie is a flat wide champaign, as is proved from sufficient authorities by the learned Du Fresne, who observes that Beria Sancti Edmundi, mentioned by Mat. Paris., sub. Ann. 1174, is not to be taken for the town, but for the adjoining plain....


Doddart

A game much like hockey played in an open field also the bent stick for playing the game...


Field

Cleared land land suitable for tillage or pasture cultivated ground the open country...


Balks, slades or meers

Balks, slades or meers, are narrow strips of grass dividing the lands of the different owners in the open fields. They are usually, though not invariably, waste of the manner, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 6, 4th Edn., Para 707, p. 309....


Claud

Claud [Brit.], a ditch: claudere, to enclose, or turn open fields into inclosures, Paroch. Antiq. 236....


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