Running Lands
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Scotch law
Lands where the ridges of a field belong alternately to different proprietors. Bell, Diet. RUNNING OF THE STATUTE OF LIMitations. A metaphorical expression, by which is meant that the time mentioned in the statute of limitations is considered as passing.
1 Bouv. Inst, note 861.