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Arpen

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Arpent.

A measure of land of uncertain quantity, mentioned in Domesday nd Oller old books; by some called an “acre,” by others “helt an acre,” and by “furlong.” Spelman; Cowell; A nieasure of land in Louisiana. 6 Pet. A French measure of land, containing one tiundred square perches, of eighteen feet eich, or about an acre. But the quantity varied in different provinces.

Spelman.