Acre

\LsX.jugerum; L. Lat. cuyra, acer, from Sax. cecer, from Lat. ager, afield. Spelnian.'l -^ measure of land containing forty perches in length, and four in breadth; or according to that proportion, be the length more or less; making an area of one hundred and sixty perches.

Ord. de admens, terrce, 35 ijdw.

I. st.

1. Stat. 24 Hen. VIII. c. 4. Crompt. Jurisd. 222. Cowell.

Declared by statute, in New- York, to be equal to a rectangle sixteen perches in length and ten in breadth, making the same area.

1 N. Y. Rev. Stat. [607,] 617, § 1. See Sergeants Land Laws, 185.

See Perch. Originally the word acre, {acer, aker, or Sax. cecer,) was not used as a measure of land, or to signify any determinate quantity of land, but to denote any open ground, {latum quantumvis agrum,) wide champaign, or field; which is still the meaning of the German cu:ker, derived probably from the same source, and is preserved in the names of some places in England, as Castle Acre, South Acre, <fec.

Spelman.

See Acrefight. When the word came to be applied as a measure of ground, the quantity denoted by it was still various, until determined by the English statutes above referred to. Kennett^s Paroch.

Ant. 534. Cowell.

At the great Domesday inquisition, the common pasture in England seems to have been measured by hides, the arable land by carucates, or carves, and the meadow by acres. Id. ACREFIGHT or ACRE. [Sax. cecerfeoght, from cecer, a field, and feoghi^ fight.] A camp or field fight: a sort of duel, or judicial combat, anciently fought by single combatants, English and Scotch, between the frontiers of the two kingdoms with sword and lance. Called campfight and the combatants champions, (L. Lat campiones, from campus,) from the open field that was the stage of trial.

Cowell.

AC SL Lat

As if.

Towns. PL 23. 21.