TERRA

Latin: Earth; soil; arable land. Kennett Gloss. . Terra affirmata. Land let to farm. Terra boscalis. Woody land. Terra culta. Cultivated land. Terra debilis. Weak or barren land. Terra dominica, or indominicata. The demesne land of a manor. Cow ell. Terra exeultabilis. Land which may be plowed. Mon. Ang. i. 426. Terra extenden da. A writ addressed to an escheator, etc., that he inquire and find out the true yearly value of any land, etc., by the oath of twelve men, and to certify the extent into the chancery. Reg. Writs, 293. Terra frosea, or frisca. Fresh land, not lately plowed. Cowell. Terra by data. Land subject to the payment of hydage. Selden. Terra lucrabilis. Land gained from the sea or inclosed out of a waste. Cowell. Terra Normanornm. Land held by a Norman. Paroch. Antiq. 197. Terra nova. Land newly converted from wood ground or arable. Cowell. Terra pntura. Land in forests, held by the tenure of furnishing food to the keepers therein. 4 Inst. 307. Terra sabulosa. Gravelly or sandy ground. Terra Salica. In Salic law. The land of the house; the land within that inclosure which belonged to a German house. No portion of the inheritance of Salic land passes to a woman, but this the male sex acquires; that is, the sons succeed in that inheritance. Lex Salic, tit. 62,