Superficies

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Superficies \Su`per*fi"cies\, n. [L., fr. super above, over +
     facies make, figure, shape. See {Surface}.]
     1. The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face
        of a thing.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. (Civil Law)
        (a) Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of
            a building, so closely connected by art or nature as
            to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other
            superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc.
        (b) A real right consisting of a grant by a landed
            proprietor of a piece of ground, bearing a strong
            resemblance to the long building leases granted by
            landholders in England, in consideration of a rent,
            and under reservation of the ownership of the soil.
            --Bouvier. Wharton.
            [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  superficies
       n 1: the purely external aspect of a thing; superficial
            appearance; "the audience was held by the substance of
            the play rather than by the superficies of the
            production"-R.W.Speaight
       2: outer surface of an area or a body

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SUPERFICIES. A Latin word used among civilians. It signifies in the edict of 
  the praetor whatever has been erected on the soil, quidquid solo 
  inoedificdtum est. Vide Dig. 43, tit. 18, 1. 1 and 2.