vesture of land

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vesture of land - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  VESTURE OF LAND. By this phrase is meant all things, trees excepted, which 
  grow upon the surface of the land, and clothe it externally. 
       2. He who has the vesture of land has a right, generally, to exclude 
  others from entering upon the superficies of the soil. 1 Inst. 4, b; Hamm. 
  N. P. 151; pee. 7 East, R. 200; 1 Ventr. 393; 2 Roll. Ab. 2.