Plantation
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The ordinary signification is farm; and the terms are nearly synonymous. A plantation cannot be divided by imaginary lines into several, for the purpose of obtaining a number of premiums for such subdivisions as distinct plantations.
Attorney-General v. Judges, 38 Cal. 291.
In North Carolina, plantation signifies the land a man owns which he is cultivating more or less in annual crops. Strictly, it designates the place planted; but in wills it is generally used to denote more than the enclosed and cultivated fields, and to take in the necessary woodland, and, indeed, commonly all the land forming the parcel or parcels under culture as one farm, or even what is worked by one set of hands.
Stowe V. Davis, 10 Ired. L. 431.