Cyclopædia
Assuming land is required, the following 68 results were found.
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APPORTIONMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/APPORTIONMENT
in Law, a dividing of a Rent into two Parts or Portions, according as the Land whence it issues, is divided among two, or more. See RENT, DIVISION, PARTITION, etc. Thus if a Man, having a Rent-Service issuing out of Land, purchase a part of the Land;...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ARABLE LANDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABLE%20LAND
LAND, anciently called Aracra, is such as is fit for tillage. See LAND and TILLAGE. It is thus called from the Latin arare, from aratrum, a plough. See PLOUGH and PLOUGHING. ARABLE LAND
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALLODIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLODIUM
Allodii, Allodus, or Alluen, Land held of a Man’s own Right. —Hollandus explains Allodium to be "Predium, seu quaevis possessio libera jurisque proprii & non in Feudum Cliente lari onere accepta." See ALLODII. After the Conquest of the Gauls, the Lands...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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THANE Landshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/THANE-Lands
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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TENEMENTARY Landshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TENEMENTARY-Lands
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE
At twelve Years, she is able finally to ratify and confirm her former Consent to Matrimony. At fourteen, she may take her Lands into her own Hands; and should be out of Ward, if she were at this Age at her Ancestor’s Death. At sixteen, she should be out...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASSETShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSETS
to his hands to discharge that which is in demand. Assets are of two sorts, real and personal— Where a man dies seized of lands in fee-simple, the lands which descend to his heir, are assets real. See REAL. Where he dies possessed of any personal...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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FORLET Landhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/FORLET-Land
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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LAY THE LANDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/LAY-THE-LAND
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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OXGANG of Landhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/OXGANG-of-Land
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANCIENT DEMESNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCIENT%20DEMESNE
etc., hereof were entered by the Conqueror in a Book called Domesday-Book, yet remaining in the Exchequer; so that such Lands as by that Book appeared to have belonged to the Crown at that time, are called Ancient Demesne. See DOMESDAY. The Tenants in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
some other person, for whose fact he is answerable. See PERSONAL. Real Action is that whereby the demandant claims title to lands or tenements, rents or commons, in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for life. See REAL. Real Actions are subdivided into...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
Medicine) We carry on the View farther, and refer out of one Art or Province into the adjoining ones, and thus lay the whole Land of Knowledge open: It appears indeed with the Face of a Wilderness; but 'tis a Wilderness thro' which the Reader may pursue...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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DEFORCEORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DEFORCEOR
DEFORCIANT, one that overcomes, and casts out another from his Lands, &c. by mere Force.A Deforceor differs from Disseisor, first, in this that a Man may disseise without Force. Secondly, in that a Man may deforce another that never was in Possession,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE
or Assise, of Novel Disseisin, which lies where a Tenant in Fee-simple, Fee-tail, or for Life, is lately disseised of his Lands or Tenements, Rent-service, Rent-seek, or Rent-charge, Common of Pasture, common Way, etc. See DISSEISIN, TENANT, &c. To this...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION
the word stands opposed to Deforestation. See DEFORESTATION. The Conqueror, and his successors, continued afforesting the lands of the subject, for many reigns; till the grievance became so notorious, that the people, of all degrees and denominations,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACQUITTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACQUITTAL
the Principal in Fact. See ACCESSORY. Acquittal is also used, where there is a Lord Mesne, and Tenant, and the Tenant holds Lands of the Mesne, and the Mesne holds over of the Lord Paramount: Here, the Mesne ought to acquit the Tenant of all Services...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALIENATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIENATION
Alienatio, in Law, the Act of making a thing another Man’s; or the altering, and transferring the Property and Possession of Lands, Tenements, or other Things, from one Man to another. See TRANSFERRING, POSSESSION, etc.To alienate, or alien, in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ABBUTALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABBUTALS
among Law-Writers, denote the Buttings or Boundings of a piece of Land ; expressing on what other Lands, Highways, or the like, the several Extremes thereof do abut, or terminate. Thus, in Croke, the Plaintiff is said to fail in his Abbutals, i. e. in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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YARD-Landhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/YARD-Land
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified