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Home Dictionary Name: pasture Page: 2Nomine poena
Nomine poena (under the description of a penalty), an additional rent payable by way of penalty in the event of certain acts prejudicial to the landlord being done by the tenant, as if he should plough up pasture.The (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (1 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), by s. 29 restricts penal rents to actual damage suffered, excepting, however, from this restriction penal rents for breaking up permanent pasture, grubbing underwoods, felling, etc., trees, or relating to the burning of heather. See Aggs on Agricultural Holdings....
Sheep-heaves
Sheep-heaves. 'Small plots of pasture often in the middle of a waste . . . the soil of which may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is certainly a private property, and is leased and sold as such.'-Cooke, Inclos. Acts, 44....
Admeasurement, writ of
Admeasurement, writ of. It lay against persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases; admeasurement of dower, where the widow held from the heir more land, etc., as dower than rightly belonged to her; and admeasurement of pasture, which lay where any one having common of pasture surcharged the common, Termes de la Ley....
Depasture
To pasture to feed to graze also to use for pasture...
Approvement
Approvement, improvement, as where there exists a right of common of pasture on a lord's waste, and the lord encloses part of such waste, leaving sufficient common of pasture, as he is bound to do by the Statue of Merton, 20 Hen. 3, c. 4, which prescribes in what cases lords may 'approve' against tenants; and see 13 Edw. 1, st. 2, c. 46; and INCLOSURE....
Land
Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every species of ground, soil or earth, whatso-ever, as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furze and heath; it includes also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards to the globe's centre, hence the maxim, Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos; or, more curtly expressed, Cujus est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a.In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of the Act includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether th...
Forest
Forest [fr. foresta, Ital.], an incorporeal hereditament, being the right or franchise of keeping, for the purpose of venery and hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park, and warren (which means all animals pursued in field sports), in a certain teritory or precinct of woody ground and pasture set apart for the purpose, with laws and officers of its own, established for protection of the game, Manw. For. Laws.A tract of land, not necessarily wooded, reserved to king or a grantee, for hunting deer and other game, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 660.The Charta de Foresta, confirmed in Parliament, 9 Hen. 3, disafforested many forests unlawfully made. Some of the royal forests still exist, as the New Forest in Hampshire, and Windsor; they are now administered by the Commissioners of Crown Lands and Forestry Commission; see FORESTRY ACTS. A forest is, in general, a royal possession, though it is capable of being vested in a subject. A forest is a right which the owner ...
Farm or ferm
Farm or ferm [fr. firma, Lat.; feorme, Sax., food, and feorman, to feed], land taken upon lease under a rent, generally annual, payable by the tenant. It is a collective word, consisting of many things, as a messuage, land, meadow, pasture, wood, common, etc. In Lancashire a farm was called fermholt; in the north, a tack; and in Essex, a wike, Termes de la Ley....
Faldage
Faldage [fr. faldagium, Lat.], a fold-course, i.e., common of pasture for sheep....
Esplees
Esplees [fr. expleti', Lat.], the products of land; as the hay of meadows, herbage of pasture, corn of arable land, rents, services, etc.; also the lands, etc., themselves, Termes de la Ley.1. Products yielded from land, 2. Rent or other payments derived from land, 3. Land itself, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 565....
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