All four were original colonies ( Kentucky was originally a part of the land grant of the Colony of Virginia ) and share a strong influence of colonial common law in some of their laws and institutions.

The term " midway " for a fair or carnival referred originally to the Midway Plaisance, a strip of park land that still runs through the University of Chicago campus and connects Washington and Jackson Parks.

MacNeill was briefly convinced to go along with some sort of action when Mac Diarmada revealed to him that a shipment of German arms was about to land in County Kerry, planned by the IRB in conjunction with Roger Casement ; he was certain that the authorities ' discovery of such a shipment would inevitably lead to suppression of the Volunteers, thus the Volunteers were justified in taking defensive action ( including the originally planned manoeuvres ).

The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods ; other crimes were called misdemeanors.

Grimm theorizes that the Helhest, a three legged-horse that roams the countryside " as a harbinger of plague and pestilence " in Danish folklore, was originally the steed of the goddess Hel, and that on this steed Hel roamed the land " picking up the dead that were her due.

This claim was made by Jiao Yu in his Huolongjing Quanzhi ( Fire-drake Manual in One Complete Volume ), his preface written in 1412 AD ( although the book was originally published in the mid 14th century ), and that Zhuge had used not only " fire weapons " but land mines in the Battle of Hulugu Valley against the forces of Sima Yi and his son Sima Zhao of the Wei Kingdom.

However, as with land archaeology what survives to be investigated by modern archaeologists can often be a tiny fraction of the material originally deposited.

The name of the country, Ne-pāla, therefore originally meant the land ' protected by Ne.

Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.

Mutley was originally the name of two parishes to the west of this road in the valley of the Houndiscombe Brook, the land to the east being part of the parish of Lipson.

The state was originally christened after Cecil Rhodes, whose British South Africa Company acquired the land in the late 19th century.

The word husmanskost stems from husman, meaning " house owner " ( without associated land ), and the term was originally used for most kinds of simple countryside food outside of towns.

* Danegeld, a medieval land tax originally raised to pay off raiding Danes and later used to fund military expenditures.

It originally had a school and dormitory building ( where Mason Hall now stands ) and several houses for professors on forty acres of land bounded by North University Avenue, South University Avenue, East University Avenue, and State Street.

A story told by the thirteenth-century Icelandic mythographer Snorri Sturluson in his Prose Edda about the origin of Lake Mälaren was probably originally about Lake Vänern: the Swedish king Gylfi promised a woman, Gefjun, as much land as four oxen could plough in a day and a night, but she used oxen from the land of the giants, and moreover uprooted the land and dragged it into the sea, where it became the island of Zealand.

The islands making up New Zealand originally had no land mammals apart from bats.

Most of the transmitter site is gone, however, as three quarters of the land it originally encompassed has been eroded into the sea.

A small whaling community was founded on the land that is now Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, and was originally known as Silver Spring, after Silver Spring Brook.

Much of the land in the south part of the Valley, in Conejos and Costilla counties, was originally part of large Mexican land grants and is private land.

The historical distinction between " land " and " capital " was that land is naturally occurring and its supply is assumed to be fixed, whereas capital as originally defined referred only to man-made goods, ( e. g., Georgism ).

At its height, the British Empire covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and comprised a quarter of its population.

Desperate for cash because of heavy debts incurred in London in the early postwar period, the Colorados lacked a source of funds except through the sale of the state's vast holdings, which comprised more than 95 percent of Paraguay's total land.

They comprised settlers and land speculators who held New Hampshire titles to lands between the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain, an area then known as the New Hampshire Grants, that is now modern Vermont.

On June 19, 1967 President Johnson declared the five principles, including land for peace, that he believed comprised the components of any United Nations settlement of the Middle East crisis.

The land comprised the southern portion of the Oneida reservation.

Aircraft ( in particular transport aircraft ) comprised about a quarter of the shipments to Britain, followed by food, land vehicles and ships.

The land surrounding the village comprised several estates with tenant farms, amongst them Barloch, Clober, Craigton, Craigdhu, Dougalston, Douglas Mains and South Mains.

The land area of the county is completely comprised from the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservations.

Local prophets took up his spiritual call, and the Creek split into two factions, roughly conforming to their settlement patterns: the Red Sticks, mostly from the Upper Towns, which comprised the majority of population, opposed the settlement of their land by whites.

Upon incorporation, Dyer was divided into three wards: The first ward consisted of all land within town limits lying west of Hart Street ; the second ward comprised the section east of Hart Street and south of Lincoln Highway ; and land north of Lincoln Highway and east of Hart Street formed the third ward.

The township was organized on December 30, 1837, the second to be organized in Kent County, and initially comprised all of the land in the county north of the Grand River.

By 1758, his Rockaway Valley plantation within the Penn Lot comprised < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 672 acres ( 2. 7 km² )</ span >, and it was on this land that the large Stickle, Bott and Kincaid farms were to prosper in the far distant future.

Once the Province of West Jersey purchased the land from the local Lenape Native Americans, the original County of Morris was created and comprised all of what is now Morris, Sussex and Warren Counties.

Some of this expenditure was supported by the demesne manor attached to the castle, which comprised of land and 5, 000 days of serf labour under feudal law.

The original Elizabeth Township comprised the entire triangle of land between the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Rivers.

The Fire District comprised all of the land in Beaufort County south of the Broad River except Jenkins Island, Hilton Head Island and Daufuskie Island.

A proposed new state of Auralia ( meaning " land of gold ") would have comprised the Goldfields, the western portion of the Nullarbor Plain and the port town of Esperance.

These suspicions were further aroused when imperial officials ordered Protestants to stop erecting Protestant churches on the land of the prince of the church or Stifts, which the Protestants claimed to be comprised under the term " royal land " ( the Stifts did not belong to the Bohemian Estates ) which was open to them due to the Letter of Majesty – a very disputed legal interpretation of which the government disapproved.

From time to time Trounson gifted additional land, until what is known as Trounson Park comprised a total of 4 km².

This property comprised the old homestead, ' Booloominbah ', together with several other buildings and 74 hectares of land.

It comprised land that was later split into Randolph, Holbrook, and Quincy, as well as parts of Weymouth and Milton, Massachusetts.

West Florida comprised the land between the Mississippi and Apalachicola Rivers, with Pensacola designated as its capital.