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ACTUS

Volume 1 · 91 words · 1771 Edition

in ancient architecture, a measure in length equal to 120 Roman feet. In ancient agriculture, the word signified the length of one furrow, or the distance a plough goes before it turns.

**Actus minimus**, was a quantity of land 120 feet in length, and four in breadth.

**Actus major**, or **Actus quadratus**, a piece of ground in the square form, whose side was equal to 120 feet, equal to half the jugerum.

**Actus intervicinalis**, a space of ground four feet in breadth, left between the lands as a path or way.