lands
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
not only land itself, but everything connected therewith in the way of buildings, structures, and improvements, and all rights and privileges appertaining thereto.
Defined by the Supreme Court in First Nat Bank of Wellingtion Ohio v. Chapman, 173 U.S. 205.
United States Code
16 U.S.C. § 4503B — as used in this section
The term “lands” means lands, waters, and interests in lands and waters.
25 U.S.C. § 564A — for the purposes of this subchapter
“Lands” means real property, interests therein, or improvements thereon, and include water rights.
25 U.S.C. § 692 — for the purposes of this subchapter (2 versions over time)
“Lands” means real property, interest therein, or improvements thereon, and includes water rights.
25 U.S.C. § 742 — for the purposes of this subchapter
“Lands” means real property, interests therein, or improvements thereon, and includes water rights.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
TENEMENTS, AND HEREDITAments. The technical and most comprehensive description of real property, as "goods and chattels" is of personalty. Williams, Real Prop. 5.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Land; Lands, Public. LANDS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
This term, the plural of "land," is said, at common law, to be a word of less extensive signification than either "tenements" or "hereditaments." But in some of the states it has been provided by statute that it shall include both those terms.
— Lauds clauses consolidation acts. The name given to certain English statutes, (8 Viet, c. 8, amended by 23 & 24 Vietc. lO6, and 32 & 33 Viet. c. 18,) the object of which was to provide legislative clauses in a convenient form for incorporation by reference in future special acts of parliament for taking lands, with or without the consent of their owners, for the promotion of railways, and other public undertakings. Mozley & Whitley.
— Lands, tenements, and hereditaments. The technical and most comprehensive description of real property, as "goods and chattels" is of personalty. Williams, Real Prop. 5.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
court of exchequer, who is appointed by patent under the great seal to be one of the bar- CURTILLIUM. A curtilage; the area ons of the exchequer. The office was abol- or Space within the inclosure of a dwellingished by St. 19 & 20 Vict. c. 36. house, Spelman.