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Terra Excultabills

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Land which may be plowed. Mon. Angl. i. 426. Terra Extendenda, A writ addressed to an escheator, etc., that he inquire and find out the true yearly value of any land, etc., by the oath of twelve and to Terra Frusca (or Frisoa). Fresh land, not lately plowed. Cowell. Terra Hydata. Land subject to the payment of hydage. Selden. Terra Lucrabilis. Land gained from the sea, or inclosed out of a waste. Cowell. Terra Manens Vacua Occupanti Conceditur. Land lying unoccupied is given to the first occupant. 1 Sid. 347. Terra Normanorum. Land held by a Norman. Par. Ant. 197. Terra Nova. Land newly converted from wood ground or arable. Cowell. Terra Putura. Land in forests, held by the tenure of furnishing food to the keepers therein. 4 Inst. 307. ^Terra Sabulosa. Gravelly or sandy ground. ^Terra Testamentalls. Gavelkind land, being disposable by will. Spelman.

Defined under Terra in The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary.