Terra

Lat., Terre, tere, L. fr.

In old English law

Land; properly, arable land. Terra culta: tilled or cultivated land. Terra excultabilis: land that may be tilled or ploughed. Terra lucrabilis: land that might be gained from the sea, or enclosed out of a waste, to particular use. Terra Normannorum: Norman's land; land so called in the reign of Henry III., being land then lately held by a noble Norman who, by adhering to the French king or dauphin, had forfeited his estate in England. Terra nova: new land; land newly granted, or newly cleared. Terra testamentalis: land held by charter or writing; boc-land. In the Salic law. Terra Salica: Salic land; the land of the house; the land within that enclosure which belonged to a German house.