AREA - Black's Law Dictionary

What is AREA? Definition of AREA in Black's Law Dictionary

A surface, a territory, a region. Fleming v. Farmers Peanut Co., C.C.A.Ga., 128 F.2d 404, 406. Any plane surface, also the inclosed space on which a building stands, the sunken space or court giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building, a particular extent of surface. State v. Armstrong, 97 Neb. 343, 149 N. W. 786, 788, Ann.Cas.1917A, 554. An inclosed yardor opening in a house; an open place adjoininga house. 1  Chit.Pr. 176. The site of a house; a site for building; the  space where a house hasstood. The ground on which a house is built, and which remains  after the house is removed. Brissonius; Calvin.

In the civil law. A vacant space in a city; aplace. not built upon. Dig. 50, 16, 211.

"Area" in geometry means the  superficial contents of any figure. State v. City of Polytechnic, Tex.Civ.App., 194 S.W. 1136, 1140.

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