Legal Definition and Related Resources of Land

In broad and general sense, means every species of ground, soil or earth, and includes houses and other buildings attached to it by human agency or by nature such as trees, herbage and water . Delaney v Lowery, 25 Cal.2d561, 154 P.2d674.Land is divisible not only horizontally but also vertically, so that one may own the fee and yet another may be entitled to all the minerals below the surface of the land. Equally, one man may own one storey or one portion of a storey of a building , while another may own the storey below or above it. Newhoff v Mayo, 48 N.J. Eq. 619, 23 A. 265.

noun

• property
• real estate
• seisin
• terrain
• tract Associated Concepts: abutting land
• adjacent land
• agreement to sell land
• alienation of land
• appurtenance to land
• common lands
• condemnation of land
• contiguous land
• contract of sale of land
• convey an interest in land
• covenants running with the land
• easement
• easement running with the land
• equitable interest in land
• high land
• improvements upon land
• interest in land
• land contract
• land grant
• land tax
• lease of land
• lien on land
• raw land
• right of way
• subdivision of land
• suit to recover land
• survey of land
• title in land
• title in fee
• trespass on land tract
• undivided land
• unimproved land
• vacant land
• waste lands

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Land in Historical Law

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Land in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

1. Comprehends all things of a permanent, substancial nature; being a word of very extensive signification. Conn. 517; 9 Id. 377. Real property; realty. All corporeal hereditaments – ground, soil or earth, with all objects under or upon the same, as trees, herbage, water, minerals, buildings. By the simple word “land” everything terrestrial passes. 2 Bl. Com. 16. 2. Place; country; sovereignty; territorial jurisdiction: as in inland, law of the land.

Note: This legal definition of Land in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

English Spanish Translation of Land

The law of the land: la Ley vigente

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Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Land

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Old English lond, land, “ground, soil,” also “definite portion of the earth’s surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries,” from Proto-Germanic *landom (source also of Old Norse, Old Frisian Dutch, Gothic land, German Land), from PIE *lendh- (2) “land, open land, heath” (source also of Old Irish land, Middle Welsh llan “an open space,” Welsh llan “enclosure, church,” Breton lann “heath,” source of French lande; Old Church Slavonic ledina “waste land, heath,” Czech lada “fallow land”). Etymological evidence and Gothic use indicates the original Germanic sense was “a definite portion of the earth’s surface owned by an individual or home of a nation.” The meaning was early extended to “solid surface of the earth,” a sense which once had belonged to the ancestor of Modern English earth; this term is also a noun.. Original senses of land in English now tend to go with country. To take the lay of the land is a nautical expression. In the American English exclamation land’s sakes (1846) land is a euphemism for Lord.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Land in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term land into Spanish: tierras (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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Agriculture; Landscape.]

public land; tenure; property.

Land of Beulah, land of the broad acres, cloud cuckoo land, the land God gave to Cain, Never-Never land at never, Promised Land at promise, land of the Southern Cross at southern.

133. EARTH ; 377. SOIL

Further Reading

Barlowe, Raleigh 1958 Land Resource Economics: The Political Economy of Rural and Urban Land Use.Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Best, Robin H.; and Coppock, J. T. 1962 Changing Use of Land in Britain. London: Faber ‘ Faber.

Carstensen, Vernon R. (editor) 1963 The Public Lands: Studies in the History of the Public Domain.Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press.

Clawson, Marion 1951 Uncle Sam’s Acres. New York: Dodd.

Conference on World Land Tenure Problems, University of Wisconsin, 1951 1956 Land Tenure: Proceedings. Edited by Kenneth H. Parsons, Raymond J. Penn, and Philip M. Raup. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press.

Dana, Samuel T. 1956 Forest and Range Policy: Its Development in the United States. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Davis, Elizabeth G. 1960 Urbanization and Changing Land Uses: A Bibliography of Selected References, 1950-1958. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Ely, Richard T.; and WEHRWEIN, GEORGE S. (1940) 1964 Land Economics. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press.

Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations 1961 Land Utilization. Rome: The Organization.

Hibbard, Benjamin H. 1924 A History of Public Land Policies. New York: Macmillan.

Hill, George W. 1964 The Agrarian Reform in Costa Rica. Land Economics 11, no. 1:41-48.

International Symposium on Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, Princeton, N.J., 1955 1956 Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth. Edited by William L. Thomas, Jr. Univ. of Chicago Press.

Ise, John 1920 The United States Forest Policy. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press.

Peffer, E. Louise 1951 The Closing of the Public Domain. Stanford Univ. Press.

Renne, Roland R. (1947) 1958 Land Economics: Principles, Problems and Policies in Utilizing Land Resources. Rev. ed. New York: Harper.

Robbins, Roy M. 1942 Our Landed Heritage. Princeton Univ. Press.

Stamp, L. Dudley (1948) 1962 The Land of Britain: Its Use and Misuse. 3d ed. London: Longmans.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management 1962 Public Lands Bibliography. Washington: Government Printing Office.

U.S. Department of Agriculture 1958 Yearbook of Agriculture: Land. Washington: Government Printing Office.

Wingo, Lowdon Jr. 1961 Transportation and Urban Land. Washington: Resources for the Future.

More Further Reading

Clements, Frederick E. 1905 Research Methods in Ecology. Lincoln, Nebr.: University Pub. Co.

Clements, Frederick E. (1916-1920)1928 Plant Succession and Indicators: A Definitive Edition of Plant Succession and Plant Indicators. New York: Wilson. COLE, MONICA M. 1960 Cerrado, Caatinga and Pantanal: The Distribution and Origin of the Savanna Vegetation of Brazil. Geographical Journal 126:168-179.

Cole, Monica M. 1961 South Africa. London: Methuen.

Cole, Monica M. 1963 Vegetation and Geomorphology in Northern Rhodesia: An Aspect of the Distribution of the Savanna of Central Africa.Geographical Journal 129:290-305.

Great Britain, Committee on Land Utilisation in Rural Areas 1942 Report. Papers by Command, Cmd. 6378. London: H.M. Stationery Office.

Great Britain, Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population 1940 Report. Papers by Command, Cmd. 6153. London: H.M. Stationery Office.

Stamp, L. Dudley (1948) 1962 The Land of Britain: Its Use and Misuse. 3d ed. London: Longmans.

Stamp, L. Dudley 1960 Our Developing World. London: Faber.

Stamp, L. Dudley (editor) 1961 A History of Land Use in Arid Regions. Arid Zone Research, No. 17. Paris: UNESCO. _ In both English and French.

Vink, A. P. A. 1963 Aspects de pedologie appliquee. Neuchatel (Switzerland): La Baconniere.

Land in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of land.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• land in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• land in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Land Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Land in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Property; real estate.

United States Tax Concept of Land

Unimproved real estate, or improved real estate not including buildings and other improvements. The cost of the land is not depreciable.

Concept of Land in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Land: A general term which includes the ground and those things of a permanent nature such as trees, crops, oil and minerals in the ground, unless specifically excepted.

Concept of Land in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Land: A general term which includes the ground and those things of a permanent nature such as trees, crops, oil and minerals in the ground, unless specifically excepted.