BY OECONOMICAL POSSESSIONS. Estate, Goods, Substance, Stock, Ability, Chattels, hold, injoy, seized of, occupy, indow, in hand enter upon, are intended such kinds of things as are necessary upon several accounts for the use, preservation, and well-being of a Family. And though divers of these things, as Land, Buildings, &c. be common as well to Political and Ecclesiastical Bodies, yet do they (as was said before) originally belong to Families, to which all other Associations were subsequent, and in which they were founded. To this may be adjoyned that other Notion signify∣ing the benefit accruing to us by our Possessions, styled REVENUE, In∣come, Intrado, Patrimony, Rent, Profit, Endowment, Steward, Fee, Vails, Perqui∣sites, the proceed.
These Possessions do refer either to things
I. That part of the Earth wherein any man hath a propriety, is styled LAND, Earth. And if he commonly resides upon it, 'tis called his DWEL∣LING, Habitation, Mansion, Home, inhabit, reside, Inmate, Desert, Wilderness, Solitude, abide, settle, stay.
The several Notions belonging to this, may be distinguished into such as signifie
II. Those kinds of Helps or Contrivances whereby men preserve the Pla∣ces of their abode from the Injuries of Weather,* and other Inconvenien∣cies, are styled by the common name of BUILDINGS, Edifice, Structure, Fabric, erect, Architecture, Superstructure, Substruction.
To which may be opposed the Notion of buildings decayed, called RUINS, dilapidate, demolish, raze, Dissolution, Wrack, Rubble, Rubbish, fall, break, subvert, throw down, lay wast.
These may be distinguished, according to their Uses, into such as are for
III. To the GREATER PARTS OF which BUILDINGS do con∣sist, and into which they may be distributed, may be adjoyned that usu∣al kind of division styled BAY.
These are either
IV. LESSER PARTS OF BUILDINGS are distinguishable into such as are serviceable; either for