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Caballeria

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired by conquest, to a horse soldier. It was a strip one hundred feet wide by two hundred feet deep. The term has been sometimes used in those parts of the United States which were derived from Spain. See 12 Pet 444, note.

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