Definition of Caballeria

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Caballeria
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    (Spanish) A lot of land measuring 100 by 200 feet.

  • Caballeria
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired by conquest, to a horse soldier. It was a strip one hundred feet wide by two hundred feet deep. The term has been sometimes used in those parts of the United States which were derived from Spain. See 12 Pet 444, note. I