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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

rt. A well, as the term is used in a conveyance, is an artificial excavation and erection in and upon land which necessarily, from its nature and the mode of its use, includes and comprehends the substantial occupation and beneficial enjoyment of the whole premises on which it is situated.

Johnson v. Rayner, 6 Gray, 107, 110.