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ACTUS

Volume 8 · 91 words · 1810 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.

Acres Minimus was a quantity of land 120 feet in length, and four in breadth.

Acres Major, or Actus Quadratus, a piece of ground in a square form, whose side was equal to 120 feet, equal to half the jugerum.

Acres Intervincularis, a space of ground four feet in breadth, left between the lands as a path or way.