JUDICIAL AND STATUTORY DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND PHRASES SECOND SERIES VOLUME 3 LAND See Arable Land; Cemetery Land; Claim Land; Mineral Land; Overflowed All my lands, see All. The primary meaning of the word "land," at common law, is "any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever; as meadows, pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furzes and heath." In a more limited sense the term denotes the quantity and character of the interest or estate which the tenant may own in the lands. Kemp v. Goodnight, 80 N. E. 160, 161, 168 Ind. 174. "Land," in its legal signification, has an indefinite extent upwards, so that by a conveyance of land all buildings, growing timber, and water erected and being thereupon shall likewise pass. holders & Commonalty of Town of Brookhaven v. Smith, 90 N. Y. Supp. 646, 650, 98 App. Div. 212. Trustees of the Free It is elementary that the word "land" in its legal signification has an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards, and Contract for sale of land, see Contract therefore if it were possible for a man to of Sale. Improvement of land, see Improvement. Interest in land, see Interest (In Property). My land, see My. Other lands, see Other. Raw prairie land, see Raw. live in a state of nature, unconnected with other individuals, the proprietor of land would own not only the face of the earth within the boundaries of his proprietorship, but also everything under it and over it. An imaginary person living in such a state of nature would be at liberty to use his land as Right of way as land itself, see Right of he pleased to build on it to any height and to Way. See, also, Real Property. "Land" is a term used to designate all real estate, just as money is used to designate the whole volume of the medium of exchange. Montgomery County v. Cochran, 121 Fed. 17, 21, 57 C. C. A. 261. "The word 'land' comprehends ground, soil, or earth, pastures, woods, springs, wells, lakes, ponds, and all things that have become a fixed part of the soil." Orchard v. Wright-Dalton-Bell-Anchor Store Co., 125 S. W. 486, 494, 225 Mo. 414, 20 Ann. Cas. 1072. 3 WDS.& P.2D SER.-1 dig into it to any depth without restraint. But as man was formed for society and is incapable of living alone, organized society is essential to his well-being and happiness, and every person who enters society must give up a part of his so-called natural rights and liberty for the benefit of the community. Cochran v. Preston, 70 Atl. 113, 114, 108 Md. 220, 23 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1163, 129 Am. Rep. 432, 15 Ann. Cas. 1048 (citing i Bl. Comm. p. 125). St. Land in its broadest signification includes not only the surface of the earth but the mines, quarries, and everything under it; |