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Blackacre

name

Etymology

From black + acre.

  1. inherited from *h₂éǵros✻
  2. inherited from *akraz✻
  3. inherited from *akr✻
  4. inherited from æcer
  5. inherited from acre
  6. compounded as blackacre — “black + acre”

Definitions

  1. A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to…

    A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.

    • If A. have Black Acre and C. have White Acre, and A. has a way over White Acre to Black Acre, and then purchases White Acre, the way will be extinct; and if A. afterwards enfeoff C. of White Acre without excepting the road, it is gone.
    • Example: Alvin holds Blackacre for investment and wishes to exchange it for like kind property to be held for investment. Becky wants Blackacre, but has only cash.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA