AREA

An inclosed yard or opening in -tl house; an open place adjoining a house. 1 Chit. Pr. 176. In the civil law. A vacant space in•a city; • place not built upon. Dig. 50, 16, 211. The site of a house; a site for building; the space where a house has stood. The.ground on which a house is built, and which remains after the house ·is removed. Bris- •sonius; Calvin.· [s. 91]