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The female version of landlord. … [Read more...] about LANDLADY

In English law. Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. They are divided into three states: (1) Civil, including all the nation, except the clergy, the army, and navy, and subdivided into the nobility and the commonalty; (2) military; (3) maritime, consisting of the navy. Wharton. … [Read more...] about LAITY

He who actually possesses the land. He is technically called the terre-tenant. … [Read more...] about LAND TENANT

Land that is surrounded by the property of others so that entrance is impossible without the use of the land of another, such as pursuant to an easement. An expression sometimes applied to a piece of land belonging to one person and surrounded by land belonging to other persons, so that it cannot be approached except over their land. L. R. 13 Ch. Div. 70S; Sweet … [Read more...] about LANDLOCKED

A large body of water, contained In a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. Webster. See Jones v. Ibee. 77 Mich. 35, 43 N. W. 855; Ne-pee-nauk Club v. Wilson, 96 Wis. 290, 71 N. W. 061. The fact that there is a current from a higher to a lower level does not make that a river which would otherwise be a lake; and the … [Read more...] about LAKE