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land

n. real property, real estate (and all that grows thereon), and the right to minerals underneath and the airspace over it. It may include improvements like buildings, but not necessarily. The owner of the land may give a long-term (like 99 years) lease to another with the right to build on it. The improvement is a "leasehold" for ownership of the right to use--without ownership of--the underlying land. The right to use the air above a parcel of land is subject to height limitations by local ordinance, state or federal law.

(See: real property, real estate)

land

not only the physical surface of land but everything growing on or underneath that surface, anything permanently affixed to the surface (such as a building) and the airspace above that surface. It includes not only the soil or earth but always any water, a pond, for example, being regarded as land covered by water. Land may be divisible both horizontally and vertically; thus, ownership of the surface may be vested in one person while ownership of mines and minerals are vested in another. It is perfectly possible to have ‘flying freeholds’, where ownership of different storeys of the same building are vested in different persons. Scotland has a developed law of the tenement which has been given an even more coherent statutory basis in the twenty-first century.

Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006

LAND. This term comprehends any found, soil or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furze and heath. It has an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards; therefore land, legally includes all houses and other buildings standing or built on it; and whatever is in a direct line between the surface and the centre of the earth, such as mines of metals and fossils. 1 Inst. 4 a; Wood's Inst. 120; 2 B1. Com. 18; 1 Cruise on Real Prop. 58. In a more confined sense, the word land is said to denote "frank tenement at the least." Shep. To. 92. In this sense, then, leaseholds cannot be said to be included under the word lands. 8 Madd. Rep. 635. The technical sense of the word land is farther explained by Sheppard, in his Touch. p. 88, thus: "if one be seised of some lands in fee, and possessed of other lands for years, all in one parish, and he grant all his lands in that parish (without naming them) in fee simple or for life; by this grant shall pass no, more but the lands he hath in fee simple." It is also said that land in its legal acceptation means arable land. 11 Co. 55 a. See also Cro. Car. 293; 2 P. Wms. 458, n.; 5 Ves. 476; 20 Vin. Ab. 203.
2. Land, as above observed, includes in general all the buildings erected upon it; 9 Day, R. 374; but to this general rule there are some exceptions. It is true, that if a stranger voluntarily erect buildings on another's land, they will belong to the owner of the land, and will become a part of it; 16 Mass. R. 449; yet cases are, not wanting where it has been decided that such an erection, under peculiar circumstances, would be considered as personal property. 4 Mass. R. 514; 8 Pick. R. 283, 402; 5 Pick, R. 487; 6 N. H. Rep. 555; 2 Fairf. R. 371; 1 Dana, R. 591; 1 Burr. 144.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Chenavier explained that land mines were a major cause of disability, which is why Handicap International is concerned with them.

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used land mines was in the first Gulf War in January 1991.

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Land mines being used in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea are administered by South Korea, but the U.S.

US will join global land mine treaty

Moreover, land that was previously used for farming is now unsuitable for cultivation because of the random nature of the land mines. The situation will continue to linger and the victims will increase, said Ali Adulraqeeb Fare, the deputy head of the Center for Dealing with Land Mines, a branch of the Anti-Land-Mines national program.

Wanting to go home but threatened by landmines, Ahim area IDPs caught in limbo

and international law restrict the use of land mines, while budget and logistical constraints at all levels limit the availability of nonpersistent scatterable mines and networked munitions.

Countermobility: geographic engineering?

Since the early 1990s, when the movement to ban land mines became widespread, forty mine-producing countries stopped producing, and millions of land mines have been destroyed, the result being that the casualty rates dropped from 26,000 people a year to between 15,000 and 20,000.

A surgeon's touch

We began looking for ways to make land mine detection and neutralization simpler and cheaper."

Cleaning up an explosive problem: project Eladin uses water to detect, expose and neutralize abandoned land mines. (Innovative Uses Of Horsepower)

How do you clear buried land mines without hurting anyone?

Agricultural engineer awarded $605,000 to study clearing of land mines. (Update)

When the Toyota Land Cruiser that Rutherford and eight Somalis were riding in hit the land mine, the entire truck overturned and filled with dust.

Lived to tell. (Ken Rutherford in person)

As of Monday, only $34 million had been accounted for as contributions, but the amount almost doubled as participants of the conference apparently recognized that land mine removal is a basic aspect of the foundation of Afghan reconstruction, the official said.

$61 mil. pledged for land mine removal in Afghanistan

A Japanese firm presented its weapon in the fight against land mines Monday when it displayed an anti-land mine machine to a group including Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman at a military facility in Managua ahead of a land mine meeting to begin Tuesday in the Nicaraguan capital.