Plough Land - Law Dictionary Search Results
Plough-land
Plough-land, a hide of land, a carucate, which see, Co. Litt.
Carucate
Carucate [fr. Carucata terr'], Carvage,or Carve of land, a plough-land of 100 acres, or according to Skene, as much land
Tenure
of land called a knight's fee. Its extent was twelve plough lands, that is, as much land as could be reasonably
Plough-alms
the ancient payment of a penny to the Church from every-plough land, Dugd. Mon. tom. i. 256.
Swoling of land
Swoling of land, so much land as one's plough can till in a year; a hide of land
Jugum terr'
Jugum terr', a yoke or land, containing half a plough-land, Co. Litt. 5 a.
Knight's fee
Knight's fee [feodum militare, Lat.], twelve plough-lands, the value of which was 20l. per annum (2 Inst. … (2 Inst. 596). By the grant of a knight's fee, land, meadow, and pasture may pass as parcel of it, and
Solinus terr'
Solinus terr', 'in Domesday booke containeth two plow-lands and somewhat lessee than an halfe.'-Co. Litt. 5 a. But … Litt. 5 a. But it seems doubtful what amount of land the term really represented-perhaps 160 acres; see Jac. Law Dict
Rustici
tenants, who held cottages and lands by the services of ploughing, and other labours of agriculture, for the lord. The land
Dalus, Dailus, Dailia
such narrow slips of pasture as are left between the ploughed furrows in arable land. See Jac. Law Dict
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