Terra
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
Earth; soil. Occurs in many Latin phrases found in old English law, in most of which it means Terra affirmata. Land let to farm. Terra boscalis.
Woody land
Terra culta. Cultivated or tilled land. Terra debilis. Weak or barren land. Terra dominica, or indomlaicala. The demesne land pertaining to a manor. Terra dominicalis regis. Demesne land belonging to the crown. Terra ezcultabilis. Land which may be ploughed. Terra e:£tende Qda. Land to be valued. This phrase was the name of a writ addressed to an escheator, &c., that he inquire and find out the true yearly value of any land, &c., by the oath of twelve men, and to certify the extent into the chancery.
Reg. Orig. 293.
Terra frisca, or frusca. Fresh land; land not lately ploughed.
Terra hydala
Land subject to the payment of hydage.
Terra lucrabilis
Land gained from the sea, or enclosed out of a waste.
Terra manens vacua occupauti conoeditur
Land lying unoccupied is given to the occupant.
Terra Normanorum
Land of Normans. This phrase is said to have been employed, during a period about coincident with the reign of Henry III., to designate lands which had escheated to the crown by any Norman who had incurred forfeiture by adhering to the French king.
Terra nova
Land newly cleared; recently converted from wood ground to arable.
Terra putura
Land in forests, held by the tenure of furnishing food to the keepers therein.
Terra sabulosa
Gravelly or sandy ground.
Terra Salica
Salic land. The land of the house; the land within that enclosure which belonged to a German house. No portion of the inheritance of such land passed to a woman; but the sons were preferred in the inheritance. See Salic Law. Terra sterilis, ez vi termini, est terra infcecunda, nullum ferens fruc- Terra testamentalis. Gavelkind land; so called fi'om being fonnerly devisable by wiU, when other lands were not so devisable.
Terra transit cum onere
Laud passes with its incumbrance.
Terra vestita
Land sown with corn.
Terra vrainabilis
Tillable land.
Terra warennata
Land having appurtenant to it a liberty of fi-ee warren.