Legal Term Dictionary

He that holds lands or tenements for a term of years or life. But we generally confine the application of the word to a person entitled for a term of years. Mozley A Whitley.

He that holds lands or tenements for a term of years or life. But we generally confine the application of the word to a person entitled for a term of years. Mozley A Whitley. Less...

Lat. Earth; soil; arable land Kennett Gloss. -Terra affirmata. Land let to farm.-Tera boscalia. Woody land.-Terra eulta. Cultivated land.-Terra debUls Weak or bamn land.-Tera dominica a, or indominicata. The demesne land of a manor. Cowell.-Terra excultabilis. Land which may be plowed. Mon. Ang. i. 426.-Terra extenda-A writ addressed to an More...

Lat. Earth; soil; arable land Kennett Gloss. -Terra affirmata. Land let to farm.-Tera boscalia. Woody land.-Terra eulta. Cultivated land.-Terra debUls Weak or bamn land.-Tera dominica a, or indominicata. The demesne land of a manor. Cowell.-Terra excultabilis. Land which may be plowed. Mon. Ang. i. 426.-Terra extenda-A writ addressed to an escheator, etc.. that he inquire and find out the true yearly value of any land, etc., by the oath of twelve men, and to certify the extent into the chancery. Reg. Writs, 293.-Terra frusca. or frisca. Fresh land, not lately plowed. Cowell.-Terra hydata. Land subject to the payment of hvdage. Belden.-Terra lucrabilis. Land gained from the sea or inclosed out of a waste. Cowell.- 'Terra Normanorum. Land held by a Norman. Paroch. Antiq. 197.-Terra nova. Land newly converted from wood ground or arable. Cowell.-Terra putura. Land in forests, held by the tenure of furnishing food to the keepers therein. 4 Inst. 307.-Terra sabulosa. Gravelly or sandy ground.-Terra Salica. In Salic law. The land of the house; the land within that inclosure which belonged to a German house. No portion of the inheritance of Salic land passes to a woman, but this the male sex acquires; that is, the sons succeed in that inheritance. Lex Salic tit. 62, ft 6.-Terra tes-tamentalis. Gavel-kind land, being disposable by will. Spelman.-Terra veatita. Land sown with corn. Cowell.-Terra wainabilis. Tillable land. Cowell.-Terra warrenata. Land that has the liberty of free-warren.-Terras dominieales regis. The demesne lands of the crown. Terra manens vacua ooeupanti eon-eeditur. 1 Sid 847. Land lying unoccupied Is given to the first occupant Less...

In old English law. A kind of tax or charge on land; a boon or duty of plowing, reaping, etc. Cowell.

In old English law. A kind of tax or charge on land; a boon or duty of plowing, reaping, etc. Cowell. Less...

An exemption from all uncertain services. Cowell.

An exemption from all uncertain services. Cowell. Less...

In old English law. A landholder.

In old English law. A landholder. Less...

He who is literally in the occupation or possession of the land, as distinguished from the owner out of possession. But in a more technical sense, the person who is seised of the land, though not in actual occupancy of It, and locally, in Pennsylvania, one who purchases and takes More...

He who is literally in the occupation or possession of the land, as distinguished from the owner out of possession. But in a more technical sense, the person who is seised of the land, though not in actual occupancy of It, and locally, in Pennsylvania, one who purchases and takes land subject to the existing lien of a mortgage or judgment against a former owner. See Dengler v. Kiehner, 13 Pa. 38, 53 Am. Dec. 441; Hulett v. Insurance Co., 114 Pa. 142, 6 Atl. 554. Less...

In English law. A land-roll or survey of lands, containing the quantity of acres, tenants' names, and such like; and in the exchequer there is a terrier of all the glebe lands In England, made about 1338. In general, an ecclesiastical terrier contains a detail of the temporal possessions of More...

In English law. A land-roll or survey of lands, containing the quantity of acres, tenants' names, and such like; and in the exchequer there is a terrier of all the glebe lands In England, made about 1338. In general, an ecclesiastical terrier contains a detail of the temporal possessions of the church in every parish. Cowell; Tomlins; Mozley A Whitley. Less...

A writ for a clerk to recover his lands, goods, and chattels, formerly seized, after he had cleared himself of the felony of which he was accused, and delivered to his ordinary to be purged. Reg. Orig.

A writ for a clerk to recover his lands, goods, and chattels, formerly seized, after he had cleared himself of the felony of which he was accused, and delivered to his ordinary to be purged. Reg. Orig. Less...

A judicial writ for the restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who is distrained above the amount of the debt Reg. Jud.

A judicial writ for the restoring of lands or goods to a debtor who is distrained above the amount of the debt Reg. Jud. Less...

A writ that lay for a man convicted by attaint to bring the record and process before the king, and take a fine for his imprisonment and then to deliver to him his lands and tenements again, and release him of the strip and waste. Reg. Orig. 232. Also it More...

A writ that lay for a man convicted by attaint to bring the record and process before the king, and take a fine for his imprisonment and then to deliver to him his lands and tenements again, and release him of the strip and waste. Reg. Orig. 232. Also it was a writ for the delivery of lands to the heir, after homage and relief performed, or upon security taken that he should perform them. Id. 293. Less...