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LOCATION, estates (law) and fern (sh)


LOCATION, estates (law)


LOCATION, estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land designated in the warrant and surveying it, is called its location. In designated in the warrant and surveying it, is called its location. In Pennsylvania, it is an application made by any person for land, in the Pennsylvania, it is an application made by any person for land, in the office of the secretary of the late land office of Pennsylvania, and entered office of the secretary of the late land office of Pennsylvania, and entered in the books of said office, numbered and sent to the surveyor General' s in the books of said office, numbered and sent to the surveyor General' s office. Act June 25, 1781, Sec. 2, 2 Sm. Laws, 7. office. Act June 25, 1781, Sec. 2, 2 Sm. Laws, 7.

fern (sh)




Any of about 10,000-12,000 species (division Filicophyta) of nonflowering vascular plants that have true roots, stems, and complex leaves and reproduce by spores.

Though ferns were once classified with the primitive horsetails and club mosses, botanists have since made a clear distinction between the scalelike, one-veined leaves of those plants and the more complexly veined fronds of the ferns, which are more closely related to the leaves of seed plants. Ferns come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes. Many are small, fragile plants; others are treelike (see tree fern). The life cycle is characterized by an alternation of generations between the mature, fronded form (the sporophyte) familiar in greenhouses and gardens and the form that strongly resembles a moss or liverwort (the gametophyte). Ferns are popular houseplants.