Yard - Law Dictionary Search Results
Farmyard
The yard or inclosure attached to a barn or the space inclosed by the farm buildings
Dungyard
A yard where dung is collected
Dooryard
A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house
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dockyard
A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding
Curtilage
A yard courtyard or piece of ground included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house
Barnyard
A yard belonging to a barn
Acre
the 33 Edw. I., according to which an acre contains 160 square perches, the then perch being 5' yards. See Blount's Law Dict. The imperial or standard English acre contains 4 roods, each rood 40 poles or
Counterbrace
To brace in opposite directions as to counterbrace the yards i e to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another
Broadcloth
A fine smooth faced woolen cloth for mens garments usually of double width ie a yard and a half so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide
Barton, Berton, or Burton
Barton, Berton, or Burton [fr. beretun, berteun, bere wic, A. S., a court-yard, corn farm; from bere, barley, and tun, inclosure, or wic, dwelling. A. S, Bosw.], demesne lands of a manor, a gret farm, a...
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