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Blackacre

Blackacre proper noun: a placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.

Proper noun

Blackacre

  1. A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.
    • If A. have Black Acre and C. have White Acre, and A. has a way over White Acre to Black Acre, and then purchases White Acre, the way will be extinct; and if A. afterwards enfeoff C. of White Acre without excepting the road, it is gone.1790, Francis Buller, An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius, page 74
    • Example: Alvin holds Blackacre for investment and wishes to exchange it for like kind property to be held for investment. Becky wants Blackacre, but has only cash.2008, Gwendolyn Griffith Lieuallen, Basic Federal Income Tax, page 209

Origin of Blackacre

From black + acre.

Questions about Blackacre

What does Blackacre mean?
Blackacre means a placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.
What part of speech is Blackacre?
Blackacre is a proper noun.

Words near Blackacre in the dictionary

  1. black-winged kites
  2. black-winged pratincole
  3. black-winged stilt
  4. black-winged stilts
  5. black/white
  6. Blackacre
  7. Blackadder
  8. Blackadder chord
  9. blackademic
  10. blackademics
  11. Blackall

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