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Fundus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. A farm.

Co. Lin. 5 a.

Calu. Lex. Land or ground generally. Si arbor mea in vicini fundo radices egerit; if my tree throws out roots into my neighbor's land. Bract, fol.

10.

Qui alienum fundum ingreditur, venandi aut aucupandi gratid, potest a domirio, si is pravtderit, prohiberi ne ingrediatnr. He who enters [or ofl^ers to enter] another's ground for the purpose of hunting or fowling, may be prevented by the owner from entering, if he foresee the act.

Inst. 2. 1. 12.

Bract. fol.

56. 3 Bl. Com. 209.

According to Lord Coke, fundus includes every kind of bui Lling, as well as land. Appellatione fundi omne cedificium, et omnis ager continetur.

4 Co. 87. See Dig. 50. 10. 115.

The bottom, or foundation of a thing. Fundus maris; the bottom of the sea.

Schultes* Aquatic Rights, 85. 127.