JUDICIAL AND STATUTORY DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND PHRASES SECOND SERIES COLLECTED, EDITED, AND COMPILED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE NATIONAL REPORTER SYSTEM VOLUME 3 LAND - PTOSIS ABDOMINALIS Credit extended by West ST. PAUL WEST PUBLISHING CO. 1914 JUDICIAL AND STATUTORY DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND PHRASES SECOND SERIES VOLUME 3 LAND The primary meaning of the word "land," at common law, is "any ground, soil, See Arable Land; Cemetery Land; Claim or earth whatsoever; as meadows, pastures, Against Land; Claim upon Land; Coal woods, waters, marshes, furzes and heath." Lands; Common Lands; Contract In a more limited sense the term denotes Made Touching the Land; Crown the quantity and character of the interest or Lands; Cultivated Lands; Drainage of estate which the tenant may own in the Land; Earned Land; Granted Lands; lands. Kemp v. Goodnight, 80 N. E. 160, 161, Improved Land; Inclosed Land; Iron 168 Ind. 174. Land; Lots, Blocks, Tracts, and Parcels of Land; Mainland; Marsh Land; Mineral Land; Overflowed Lands; Public Land; Respecting Title to Land; School Land; Shore Land; Suit for Land; Sunk Land; Swamp and Overflowed Lands; Tide Land; Timber Land; Uninclosed Lands; Unplatted Lands; Vacant Land; Wild and Forest Lands. Adjacent lands, see Adjacent. All my lands, see All. "Land," in its legal signification, has an indefinite extent upwards, so that by a conveyance of land all buildings, growing timber, and water erected and being thereupon Trustees of the Freeshall likewise pass. holders & Commonalty of Town of Brookhaven v. Smith, 90 N. Y. Supp. 646, 650, 98 App. Div. 212. It is elementary that the word "land" in its legal signification has an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards, and Contract for sale of land, see Contract therefore if it were possible for a man to of Sale. Improvement of land, see Improvement. Interest in land, see Interest (In Property). My land, see My. Other lands, see Other. Raw prairie land, see Raw. live in a state of nature, unconnected with other individuals, the proprietor of land would own not only the face of the earth within the boundaries of his proprietorship, but also everything under it and over it. An imaginary person living in such a state of nature would be at liberty to use his land as Right of way as land itself, see Right of he pleased to build on it to any height and to Way. See, also, Real Property. "Land" is a term used to designate all real estate, just as money is used to designate the whole volume of the medium of exchange. Montgomery County v. Cochran, 121 Fed. 17, 21, 57 C. C. A. 261. dig into it to any depth without restraint. But as man was formed for society and is incapable of living alone, organized society is essential to his well-being and happiness, and every person who enters society must give up a part of his so-called natural rights and liberty for the benefit of the community. Cochran v. Preston, 70 Atl. 113, 114, 108 Md. 220, 23 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1163, 129 Am. "The word 'land' comprehends ground, soil, or earth, pastures, woods, springs, wells, lakes, ponds, and all things St. Rep. 432, 15 Ann. Cas. 1048 (citing 1 that have become a fixed part of the soil." 3 WDS.& P.2D SER.-1 Bl. Comm. p. 125). Land in its broadest signification includes not only the surface of the earth but the mines, quarries, and everything under it; |