(carucata), in our ancient laws, as much land as one team can plough in a year.

In Doomsday Inquisition the arable land is estimated in carucates, the pasture in hides, and the meadow in acres. Skene makes the carucata the same with hilda or hida terre; Littleton, the same with soc.

In the reign of Richard I. a carucate was estimated at sixty acres, and at one period of the same reign at a hundred acres; in the time of Edward I. it was rated at a hundred and eighty acres; and in the twenty-third of Edward III. a carucate of land in Burcester contained a hundred and twelve acres, and in Middleton a hundred and fifty acres.

By a statute of William III., charging persons to repair the highways, a plough-land is rated at fifty pounds per annum, and may contain buildings, wood, pasture, &c.