KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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LAND

LANDIRECTA

LANDAGENDE, LANDHIAFORD, or IiANDBICA. In Saxon law. A proprietor of land; lord of the soil. Anc. Inst. In Saxon law. A charter or deed by which lands or tenements were given or held. Spelman; Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10. In old English law. An ancient customary fine, paid either in money or cattle, at every alienation of land lying within some manor, or within the liberty of some borough. Cowell; Blount LANDEA. In old English law. A ditch or trench for conveying water from marshy grounds. Spelman. —Landed estate. SeeESTATE.—Landed es tates conrt. The court which deals with the transfer of land and the creation of title thereto in Ireland.—Landed property. Real estate in general, or sometimes, by local usage, suburban or rural land, as distinguished from real estate situated in a city. See Electric Co. v. Baltimore, 93 Md. 630, 49 Atl. 655, 52 L. R. A. 772; Sindall v. Baltimore, 9S Md. 52$ 49 Atl. 645.—Landed proprietor. Any per son having an estate in lands, whether highly improved or not. Police Jury of Parish of St Mary v. Harris, 10 La. Ann. 677. LANDBOC. LANDCHEAP. LANDED. Consisting in real estate or land; having an estate in land. LANDEGANDMAN. Sax. In old Eng lish law. A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor. Spelman. LANDGRAVE. A name formerly given to those who executed justice on behalf ot the German emperors, with regard to the Internal policy of the country. It wasap plied, by way of eminence, to those sovereign princes of the empire who possessed by inher itance certain estates called "land-gravates,*' of which they received investiture from the emperor. Enc. Lond. LANDING. A place on a river or other navigable water for lading and unlading goods, or for the reception and delivery of passengers; the terminus of a road on a river or other navigable water, for the use of travelers, and the loading and unloading of goods. State v. Randall, 1 Strob. (S.C.) I l l , 47 Am. Dec. 548. A place for loading or unloading boats, but not a harbor for them. Hays v. Briggs, 74 Pa. 373. LANDIRECTA. In Saxon law. Serv ices and duties laid upon all that held land, including the three obligations called "trino- LANDEFRICUS. A landlord; a lord of the soil. LANDIMER. In old Scotch law. A measurer of land. Skene.

goods, they, as well as the patent searchers, are to certify the shipping thereof on the deben tures. Enc. Lond.—Land-warrant. The evi dence which the state, on good consideration, gives that the person therein named is entitled to the quantity of land therein specified, the bounds and description of which the owner of the warrant may fix by entry and survey, in the section of country set apart for its lo cation and satisfaction. Neal v. President, etc.. of East Tennessee College, 6 Yerg. (Tenn.) 205. —Mineral lands. In the land laws of the United States. Lands containing deposits of valuable, useful, or precious minerals in such quantities as to justify expenditures in the ef fort to extract them, and which are more val uable for the minerals they contain than for agricultural or other uses. Northern Pac. R. Co. v. Soderberg, 188 U. S. 526, 23 Sup. Ct. 365, 47 L. Ed. 575; Deffeback v. Hawke, 115 U. S. 392, 6 Sup. Ct. 95, 29 L. Ed. 423; Davis v. Wiebbold. 139 U. S. 507, 11 Sup. Ct. 628, 35 L. Ed. 238; Smith v. Hill, 89 CaL 122, 26 Pac. 644; Merrill v. Dixon, 15 Nev. 406.—Place lands. Lands granted in aid ol a railroad company which are within certain limits on each side of the road, and which be come instantly fixed by the adoption of the line of the road. There is a well-defined differ ence between place lands and "indemnity lands." See INDEMNITY. See Jackson v. La Moure County, 1 N. D. 238,46 N. W. 449.—Public lands. The general public domain; unappro priated lands; lands belonging to the United States and which are subject to sale or other disposal under general laws, and not reserved or held back for any special governmental or public purpose. Newhall v. Sanger, 92 U. S. 763. 23 L. Ed. 769; U. S. v. Garretson (C. C) 42 Fed. 24; Northern Pac. R. Co. v. Hinchman (C. C.) 53 Fed. 526; State v. Telegraph Co, 52 La. Ann 1411, 27 South. 796—School lands. Public lands of a state set apart by the state (or by congress in a territory) to create, by the proceeds of their sale, a fund for the establishment and maintenance of public schools.—Seated land. Land that is occu pied, cultivated, improved, reclaimed, farmed, or used as a place of residence. Residence without cultivation, or cultivation without resi dence, or both together, impart to land the char acter of being seated The term is used, as, opposed to "unseated land," in Pennsylvania tax laws. See Earley v. Euwer, 102 Pa. 340; Stoetzel v. Jackson, 105 Pa. 567 ; Kennedy v. Daily, 6 Watts (Pa.) 272; Coal Co v. Fales; 55 Pa. 98.—Swamp and overflowed lands. Lands unfit for cultivation by reason of their swampy character and requiring drainage or reclamation to render them available for bene ficial use. Such lands, when constituting a portion of the public domain, have generally been granted by congress to the several states within whose limits thev lie. See Miller v. Tobin (C. G.) 18 Fed 614; Keeran v. Allen, 33 Cal. 546; Hogaboom v. Ehrhardt, 58 Cal. 233; Thompson v. Thornton, 50 Cal. 144.— Tide lands. Lands between high and low wa ter mark on the sea or any tidal water; that portion of the shore or beach covered and un covered by the ebb and flow of the tide. Ron dell v. Fay, 32 Cal. 354; Oakland v. Oakland Water Front Co., 118 Cal. 160, 50 Pac. 277; Andrus v. Knott. 12 Or. 501, 8 Pac. 763; Walker v. State Harbor Com'rs, 17 Wall. 650, 21 L. Ed. 744.—Unseated land. A phrase used in the Pennsylvania tax laws to describe land which, though owned by a private person, has not been reclaimed, cultivated, improved, occupied, or made a place of residence. See SEATED LAND, supra. And see Stoetzel v. Jackson, 105 Pa. 567; McLeod v. Lloyd, 43 Or. 260, 71 Pac 799.

LAND A. An open field without wood; a lawnd or lawn. Cowell; Blount.