LAND

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LAND , the general

term

TERM

for that part of the earth's surface which is solid and dry as opposed to sea or water. The word is common to Teutonic languages, mainly in the same form and with essentially the same meaning. The Celtic cognate forms are Irish lann, Welsh Ilan, an enclosure, also in the sense of " church," and so of constant occurrence in Welsh place-names, Cornish lan and

Breton

BRETON,
BRITTON
- BRITTON
- BRITTON, JOHN (1771–1857)
BRETON, JULES ADOLPHE

lann, health, which has given the French lande, an expanse or

tract

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

of sandy

waste

WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

ground. The ultimate root is unknown. From its primary meaning have developed naturally the various uses of the word, for a

tract

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

of ground or country viewed either as a political, geographical or ethnographical division of the earth, as property owned by the public or state or by a private individual, or as the rural as opposed to the urban or the cultivated as opposed to the built on part of the country; of particular'meanings may be mentioned that of a building divided into tenements or flats, the divisions being known as " houses," a Scottish usage, and also that of a division of a ploughed field marked by the irrigating channels, hence transferred to the smooth parts of the bore of a rifle between the grooves of the rifling.
For the physical geography of the land, as the solid portion of the earth's surface, see GEOGRAPHY. For land as the subject of cultivation see AGRICULTURE and SOIL, aISO,RECLAMATION OF LAND. For the history of the holding or

tenure

TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

of land see

VILLAGE

VILLAGE

COMMUNITIES and FEUDALISM; a particular form of land

tenure

TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

is dealt with under METAYAGE. The article AGRARIAN

LAWS

LAWS

deals with the disposal of the public land (Ager publicus) in Ancient Rome, and further information with regard to the part played by the land question in Roman history will be found under ROME: History. The legal side of the private ownership of land is treated under REAL PROPERTY and CONVEYANCING (see also LANDLORD AND

TENANT

TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

, and LAND REGISTRATION).

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