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

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat. In the civil law.

A trench

A place sunk by the side of a stream, so called because it is cut (incidatur) into or through the stone or earth.

Dig. 43, 21, 1, 5.

The term seems to have included ditches (fossœ) and wells, (putei.)