Caballeria
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Spanish law. A portion of spoils taken or lands conquered in a war, granted to a horse soldier.
Diet. Span. Acad.; 12 Pet. (U. S.) 444, note.
A quantity of land, varying in extent in different provinces. In those parts of the United States which formerly belonged to Spain, it is a lot of one hundred feet front, two hundred feet depth, and equivalent to CABALLERO (Spanish; from Latin eaballus, a horse). In Spanish law. A knight. So called on account of its being more honorable to go on horseback (a caballo) than on any other beast.
White, New Recop. bk 1, tit. 5, c. 3, § 3; Id. bk. 1, tit. 5, c. 1; Id. bk. 4, tit. 10, c. 1, § 6.