Carucata

A certain quantity of land, used as the basis for taxation. As much, land as may be tilled by a single plough in a year and a' day. Skene de Verb. Sign. A team of cattle; a cartload. It may include houses, meadow, woods, etc. It is said by Littleton to be the same as soca, but has a much more extended signification. Spelman; Blount; Cowell. CAS FORTUIT (Fr.) In the law of insurance. A fortuitous event; an inevitable accident. 3 Kent, Comm. 300; 120 U. S. 727. Same as the Latin casus fortuitus (q. v.)

CARUCATE. A certain quantity of land used as the basis for taxation. A cartload. As much land as may be tilled by a single plow in a year and a day. Skene. de verb. sig. A plow land of one hundred acres. Ken. Gloss. The quantity varies in different counties from sixty to one hundred and twenty acres. Whart. See Littleton, Ten. eclxii. It may Include houses, meadow, woods, etc. It is said by Littleton to be the same as soca, but has a much more extended signification. Spelman, Gloss.; Blount; Cowell. Carucate was a primitive measure of land in England. Caruca was a plow team. Carueate was based upon tbe amount of land eight oxen could cultivate in a year. As a fiscal unit it was equivalent to a hide of 120 acres. An eighth was a bovate. 2 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 56; Maitl. Domesday Book and Beyond 395. See 1 L. J. R. 96.

I. l, Carue, I. fr.

In old English and Scots law. As much land as might be tilled by one plough; a carucate or carve of land; a ploughland, — probably no fixed quantity. A team of oxen for drawing or ploughing; a cart load.

Acertain quantity of land used as the basis for taxation. As much land as may be tilled by a single plow ina year anda day. Also, a team of cattle, or a eart-lowd.

I. Prom caruca, a plough. A plough-land, a carve of land; as much land as one plough could cultivate.

Lat. [from caruca, a plough.] In old English law. A carucate, or carve of land; a plough-land. A quantity of land containing as much as might be tilled by one plough in a year and a day. Reg. Orig. 1 b. Co. Litt. 6 a, 69 a. Skene de Verb. Signif. Blount, voc. Carucate. By some said to be one hundred acres. Blount. But probably of no fixed quantity. Thel. Dig. lib. 8, c. 12. See Carve, Ploughland. A team or draught of oxen, (carucata boum,) for drawing or ploughing. Cowell. Blount. A cart load. Blount. Perhaps a corruption of carecta, carreta, or carectata, (qq. v.) Carucatarius; one who held land in carvage, that is, in socage, or plough tenure. Cowell. Kennett's Par. Ant. 354, cited ibid.