Legal Term: CABALLERIA

Definition: Spanish law. A measure of land, which is different in different provinces. Diccionario por la Real Academia. In those parts of the United States, which formerly belonged to Spain, the caballeria is a lot of one hundred feet front and two hundred feet deep, and equal, in all respects, to five peonias. (q. v.) 2 White"s Coll. 49; 12 Pet. 444. note. See Fanegas.

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