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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...
Estate
Estate [fr. status, Lat.; etat, Fr.], the condition and circumstance in which an owner stands with regard to his property. The word is used in several senses and may denote either an estate in land; or an estate in property other than land; a legal estate or an equitable estate, land being an immovable is capable of being the subject of many estates existing concurrently with each other, thus the absolute ownership or fee simple may be leased and sub-leased, mortgaged and charged, each of the holders of these estates having a good legal or equitable estate at the same time; again, estates may be in possession, or in futuro; personal property may also be subject concurrently to a variety of ownerships, according to its nature; technically, in regard to land, the word is used to denote the quantity of interest, e.g., estate in fee simple, for life, for years, etc., in either legal or equitable estates. In practice its most important division is into real estate and personal estate, altho...
Nomine 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....
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant in respect of the improvements effected by him during his tenancy. The operation of this Act could be and frequently was excluded by agreement, but now the tenant cannot deprive himself by contract of the right to claim compensation which is conferred on him by the Act, although he may within limits substitute other benefits by agreement. The Act of 1923 (as amended by the Agricultural Holdings Amendment Act, 1923) repeals and consolidates all the earlier statutes dealing with the subject, and confers on outgoing tenants of 'holdings' the rights and benefits briefly outlined below. The term 'holding' means any parcel of land held by a tenant which is wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in whole or in part cultivated as a market garden, and which is not le...
common
common 1 a : of or relating to a community at large : public [ defense] b : known to the community [a thief] 2 : belonging to or shared by two or more persons or things or by all members of a group [when the insured and the beneficiary perish in a disaster] [ areas of the building] 3 : of or relating to common stock [ shares] n 1 pl cap : house of commons 2 : the legal right of taking a profit in another's land in common with the owner or others [the of estovers] [the of pasture] 3 : a piece of land subject to common use: as a : land jointly owned and used esp. for pasture b : a public open area in a municipality 4 : a condition of shared ownership : a condition in which a right is shared with an interest held by another person [held the estate in ] see also tenancy in common at tenancy compare severalty 5 : common stock at stock ...
Pasturage
Grazing ground grass land used for pasturing pasture...
Depasture
To pasture to feed to graze also to use for pasture...
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....
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....
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