Superfluous Lands
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
Lands acquired by a railway company under its statutory powers, and not required for the purposes of its undertaking. The company is bound, within a certain time, to sell such lands, and, if it does not, they vest in and become the property of the owners of the adjoining lands.
13 Ch. Div. 607.
SUPERINDUCTIO (Lat.) In the civil law. A species of obliteration.
Dig. 28. 4. 1.