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Ager

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A field.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat.

In civil law. A field; land generally. A portion of land inclosed by definite baundaries. Municipality No. 2 v. Orleans Co.tton Press, 18 La. 167, 36 Am. Dec. 624.

In old English law. An acre. Spelman.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I In the civil law. A field; a try, with no building upon it, land generally.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Lat.

In the civil law. A field; land generally. <A portion of land intlosed by definite boundaries.

In old English law. An acre. Spelman,

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. A field; an acre.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. A field; open country. Ager est locus qui sine villa est. Dig. 50. 16. 27. Land generally. Bract. fol. 9. Sic enim debere quem meliorem agrum suum facere, ne vicini deteriorem faciat; every one ought so to improve his own land as not to injure his neighbor's. 3 Kent's Com. 441.