Area
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
An inclosed yard or opening in a house; an open place adjoining a house, 1 Chit. Pr. 176. In the civil law. A vacant space inacity; a place not built upon, Dig. 50, 16, 211. The site of a house; a site for building; the space where a house has stood. ‘The ground on which a house is built, and which remains after the house is removed. Brissonius; Calvin.