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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
#. A portion of land, as a field, inclosed, ag by a hedge, fence, or other visible inclosure.
38 Bl. Comm. 209.
The interest of a person in any particular piece of ground, whether actually inclosed@or not.
7 East, 207.
The noun “close,” in its lagal sense, imports a portion of land inciosed, but not necessarily inclosed by actual or visible barriers, The invisible, ideal boundary, founded on limit of title, which surrounds every man’s land, constitutes it his close, irrespective of walls, fences, ditches, or the like, In practice. The word means termination; winding up. ‘Thus the close of the pleadings is where the pleadings are finished, #. e., When issue has been joined.