Definition of Catchland

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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.
  • Catchland
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Land the tithes from which went as a right to the first of two preachers who claimed them.

  • Catchland
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Land in Norfolk, so called because it is not known to what parish it belongs, and the minister who first seizes the tithes of it, by right of preoccupation, enjoys them for that year. Cowell.