Mill

estates. Mills are so very different and various, that it is not easy to give a definition of the term. They are used for the purpose of grinding and pulverising grainand other matters, toextract the Juices of vegetables, to make various articles of manufacture.. They take their names from the uses to which they are employed, hence we have paper-mills, fulling-mills, iron-mills, oil-mills, saw-mills, &c. In another respect their kinds are various; they are either fixed in the freehold or not. Those whichare a part of the freehold, are either water-mills, wind-mills, steam-mills, a&c.; those ‘which are not so fixed, are handmills, and are mere personal property. Those which are fixed, and make a part of the freehold, are buildings with machinery calculated to obtain the object proposed in their erection. It has been held that the grant ofa mill, and its appurtenances, even without the land, carries the whole right of water enjoyed by the grantor, as necessary to its use, and as a-necessary incident.

Cro. Jac. 121.

And a devise of a mill carries the land used with Serge. & Rawle, 169;. and see 5 Serg. & Rawle, 107; 2 Caines’s Ca. 87; 10.

Serg. & Rawle, 63; 1 Penna. R. 402; 3N. H. Rep. 190; 6 Greenl. R. 436; Ib. 154; 7 Mass. R. 6.

A mill means not merely the building, in which the business is carried on, but includes the site, the dam, and other things annexed to the freehold, necessary for its beneficial enjoyment.

3 Mass. R. 280. Vide 15 Vin. Ab. 398; Dane’s Ab. Index, h. t.