Farm

A certain amount of provision reserved as the rent of a messuage. Spelman, Gloss. Rent generally which is reserved on a lease; when it was to be paid in money, it was called blanche flmne.

Spelman, Gloss.; 2 Bla. Com. 42.

A term

A lease of lands; a leasehold interest 2 Sharsw.

Bla. Com. 17; 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law 301, n.; 2 Chit PI. 879, n. e.

The land itself, let to farm or rent.

2 Bla. Com. 368.

A portion of land used for agricultural purposes, either wholly or in part Winn v. A body of land, usually under one ownership, devoted to agriculture; either to the raising of crops, or pasturage, or both. It is not understood to have any necessary relation to, or to be circumscribed by, political subdivisions. A farm may consist of any number of acres, of one quarter section or less, or many quarter sections; of one field, or many fields; may lie in one township and county, or in more than one: People V. Caldwell, 142 111.

434, 32 N. E. 0&3. See Kendall v. Miller, 47 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 446.

Usually the chief messuage In a village or town whereto belongs a great demesne of all sorts. Cowell; Cunningham, Law Diet.; Termes de la Ley. A large tract or portion of land taken by a lease under a yearly rent payable by the tenant. Tomlin, Law Diet, From this latter sense Is derived its common modern slgnlflcation of a large tract used for cultivation or other purposes, as raising stock, whether hired or owned by the occupant, including a messuage with out-buildings, gardens, orchard, yard, etc.

Plowd. 195; Touchst. 93.

In American law, the word has almost exclusively this latter meaning of a portion of land used for agricultural purposes, either wholly or in part.

Com. V. Carmalt, 2 Blnn. (Pa.) 238; Winn v. Cabot. 18 Pick. (Mass.) 553; Wheeler v. Randall, 6 Mete. (Mass.) 529.

By the conveyance of a farm will pass a messuage, arable land, meadow, pasture, wood, etc., belonging to or used with it; Co. Litt 6 a; Shepp. Touchst.

93; 4 Cruise, Dig. 321; Plowd. 1C7.

In a will, the word farm may pass a freehold, If it appear that such was the intention of the testator; 6 Term 345; 9 EJast 448.

See 6 East 604, n.; 8 id. 339.