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of as the area of land that could be ploughed by one man using a team of eight oxen in one day. The acre is still a statutory measure in the United States...

areas of land, and it is the legal unit of measure in domains concerned with land ownership, planning, and management, including law (land deeds), agriculture...

The Weights and Measures Act (R.S. 1985; French: Loi sur les poids et mesures) (long title: An Act respecting weights and measures) is a Canadian law governing...

of measure Measures from Antiquity and the Bible Antiquity and the Bible at the Wayback Machine (archived May 10, 2008) Reasonover's Land Measures A Reference...

Sokha (big plow) – a unit of land measure in Russia in 13th-17th centuries. Sokha was used as unit of taxation for worked land owned by someone else or the...

Quintal, a unit of weight. Quiñón, a unit of land measure in the Philippines. Tahúlla, a unit of land measure in Valencia. Toesas, unit of length equal to...

discriminatory laws, on 30 June 1991 by the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991. After the 1948 general election, D.F. Malan's administration...

7%) more votes were cast on Measure 36 than the average of all other measures on the ballot. Measure 37 (restricting land use regulation) was contentious...

the alqueire was used as a measure of capacity and eventually it was used also as a measure of area of productive land. The spread of Portuguese culture...

The Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991 (Act No. 108 of 1991) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa which repealed many of the apartheid...

activities; to determine, measure and represent land, three-dimensional objects, point-fields and trajectories; to assemble and interpret land and geographically...

them. 1998: Measure 65 (sought to roll back land use regulation, failed) 1999: Measure 56 passed 80% 2000: Measure 2 (sought to roll back land use regulation...

number bīs), which corresponded to the land required to sow 20 nalis of seed. Consequently, its actual land measure varied based on the quality of the soil...

75 m in Baden to 3 m in Switzerland. Rute – Rod, Roman origin, use as land measure. Very differing definitions, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18 or 20 feet, varied between...

Irish measure or plantation measure was a system of units of land measurement used in Ireland from the 16th century plantations until the 19th century...

scribe to solve for their exact lengths. The setat was the basic unit of land measure and may originally have varied in size across Egypt's nomes. Later, it...

square royal cubit, ten thousand (a myriad) of which defined an Egyptian land measure, the setat. John Ivimy noted that "The ratio MY : Rc is SQRT(5) : SQRT(2)...

Oregon Ballot Measure 37 was a controversial land-use ballot initiative that passed in the U.S. state of Oregon in 2004 and is now codified as Oregon...

the "standard" English measure. Until English King Henry VIII seized the lands of the Roman Catholic Church in 1536, land measures as we now know them were...

different from a peasant's dwelling zagonowa – from zagon, a small unit of land measure, hide nobility cząstkowa – partial, owners of only part of a single village...