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Arable land. The Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 30, allows freedom of cropping of arable land, which expression 'shall not include land in grass, which by the terms of any contract of tenancy is to be retained in the same condition throughout the tenancy.''Arable land' is meant not only land capable of cultivation but also actually cultivated. It is not arable not because it is cultivated but because it is something else such as waste, pasture, ancient meadow etc. Indeed the fact that the land is actually cultivated demonstrates its nature as arable-land, Ishvarlal Girdharilal Jushi v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1968 SC 870 (880): (1968) 2 SCR 267. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 17(1)]According to the Oxford Dictionary 'arable land' is 'land which is capable of being ploughed or fit for village'. In the context of s. 17(1) of the Act the expression must be construed to mean 'lands which are mainly used for ploughing and for raising crops', Raja Anand Brahmo Slah...
Manor
Manor [fr. manerium, Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate in fee-simple in a tract of land granted by the sovereign to a subject (usually of power and consequence) in consideration of certain services to be performed. The tenementales were granted out; the dominicales (whence the ter demesne) were reserved to the lord; the barren lands which remained formed the 'wastes'; the whole fee was termed a lordship or barony; and the Court appendant to the manor the Court baron. Every manor (with some doubtful and unimportant exceptions) is of a date prior to the statute of Quia Emptores (18 Edw. 1, c. 1).'A manor,' says Mr. Joshua Williams, 'was made by 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 the freeholder, now become lord of a manor, is seised in his demesne as of fe...
Liberam legem amittere
Liberam legem amittere, to lose one's free law (called the villanious judgment), to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those lands wasted, houses razed, trees rooted up, and one's body committed to prison. It was anciently pronounced against conspirators, but is now disused, the punishment substituted being fine and imprisonment. Hawk. P.C. 61, c. lxxii. S. 9; 3 Inst. 221....
De praerogative regis
De praerogative regis, the statute 17 Edw. 2, st. 1, which enacts, in affirmance of the Common Law, that the King shall have ward of the lands of natural fools, taking the profits without waste or destruction, and shall find them necessaries; and after the death of such idiots, he shall render the estate to the heirs. This was in order to prevent such idiots from aliening their lands, and their heirs from being disinherited.The Act is not repealed by the consolidating Lunacy Act, 1890....
Estrepement
Estrepement [fr. estropier, Fr., to lame; extirpare, Lat.], any spoil or waste made by tenant for life upon any lands or woods to the prejudice of him in reversion; also making land barren by continual ploughing. The writ of estrepement was abolished by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1883 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27)....
Expilation
Expilation, robbery; the act of committing waste upon land....
Frusca terr'
Frusca terr', waste and desert lands, Dugd. Mon., tom. 2, p. 327....
Estrepe
To strip or lay bare as land of wood houses etc to commit waste...
Estrepement
A destructive kind of waste committed by a tenant for life in lands woods or houses...
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....
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