LANDS

This term, the plural of “land,” is said, at common law, to be a word of less extensive signification than either “tenements” or “hereditaments.” But in some of; the states it has been provided by statute that it shall include both those terms. Lands clauses consolidation acts. The name given to certain English statutes, (8 Vict c. 8, amended by 23 & 24 Vict c. 106, and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 18,) the object of which was to provide legislative clauses in a convenient form for incorporation by reference in future special acts of parliament, for taking lands, with or without the consent of their owners, for the promotion of railways, and other public undertakings. Mozley & Whitley. Lands, tenements, and hereditaments. The technical and most comprehensive description of real property, as “goods and chattels” is of personairy. Williams, Real Prop. 5.