Superficies
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Erections on the surface.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Lat.
In the civil law. The alienation by the owner of the surface of the soli of all rights necessary for building on the surface, a yearly rent being generally reserved; also a building or erection. Sandars' Just Inst (5th Ed.) 133.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In the civil law. The surface; everything on the surface of land or of a building, and so closely connected with it by art or nature as to constitute a part of it. Superflua non nocent [noceant]: superfluities do [should] not prejudice.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
/. The surface.