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

Black's Law Dictionary

adj. In marine insurance. A In the old reports. Good, sufficient, unobjectionable in law; the opposite of "111." n. A well, as the term is used in a conveyance, is an artificial excavation and erection in and upon land, which necessarily, from its nature and the mode of its use, includes and comprehends the substantial occupation and beneficial enjoyment of the whole premises on which it is situated.

Johnson v. Rayner, 6 Gray (Mass.) 107; Andrews v. Carman, 13 Blatchf. 307, 1 Fed. Cas. 868.