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单词 concealed land
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concealed land
concealed land n. Law (a) (now historical) land held and believed to be owned privately, but to which the Crown has an ancient or alleged right, esp. land held by the monasteries before the Reformation; cf. concealment n. 2, concealer n. 2; (b) (chiefly with reference to India) land held unofficially or illegally.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > held directly from Crown > by a person without title
concealed land1558
1558 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary i. f. iiiv The same manoures, landes, tenementes, or other hereditamentes, so conteyned in any suche letters patentes, were concealed landes.
1632 Pulton's Coll. Sundrie Statutes (new ed.) 1381 (margin) The King shall recouer no concealed Lands..unlesse it may be proued, that hee had right, or title thereunto.
1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 23 Concealed Lands belonged anciently to the King.
1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State Cork I. i. iii. 95 Sir J. Fullerton..had only letters patent granted him to possess concealed lands.
1830 J. Briggs Present Land-tax India ii. ii. 262 A great increase of revenue from what appeared to be concealed land.
1908 Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Antiq. Field Club 29 33 Some few [monastic lands] were ‘discovered’ in Elizabeth's reign as concealed land.
2006 P. C. Bansil Poverty Mapping in Rajasthan ii. 77 There has also been no progress in the detection of concealed land and the distribution to the landless rural poor.
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