united-states legal-terms
Is there a general term corresponding to &quot;predial&quot; as in &quot;predial tax&quot; and &quot;predial larceny&quot; in U.S. law?
<p>I came across the term &quot;predial&quot; which seems to be largely used in the state of Louisiana (mixed civil &amp; common). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praedial_larceny" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Predial larceny</a> (or praedial larceny) seems to figure primarily in the Caribbean. So is there a corresponding term for &quot;predial tax&quot; in other states? What is theft in the fields called in other states, or just &quot;larceny&quot; and &quot;theft&quot;, undistinguished from other kinds of theft?</p>
<p>What about the UK?</p>

<p>I have never seen this term used in English or American jurisprudence (or at all, for that matter in English).</p>
<p>The usual English translation for the legal term &quot;predial&quot; (also spelled &quot;praedial&quot;), which is used mostly in Louisiana and the Caribbean would be &quot;agricultural&quot;. For example, &quot;agricultural larceny&quot; or &quot;agricultural labor&quot; or an &quot;agricultural lien&quot;.</p>
<p>The definition of predial is theoretically broader, since it in theory also applies to non-agricultural land, but it doesn't appear to be used very often at all in a non-agricultural sense. When it is used in a non-agricultural sense, e.g., an &quot;urban predial tax&quot; the word substitution would be &quot;property&quot; or &quot;real property&quot; or &quot;land&quot;, hence an &quot;urban property tax&quot; or &quot;urban real property tax&quot; or &quot;urban land tax&quot;, as necessary for clarity and accuracy.</p>
<p>&quot;Property&quot; would be the most common substitution after &quot;agricultural&quot;. But &quot;Real property&quot; would be used when it is important to make clear that tangible personal property is not being referred to, and &quot;land&quot; would be used when the term is not intended to include structures only the land that structures are built upon.</p>
<p>For example, this website translates a &quot;predial tax&quot; in Mexico as a &quot;property tax&quot;.</p>
<p>According <a href="https://www.wordnik.com/words/predial" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this dictionary site</a> the definition of the terms is as follows:</p>
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<p>predial</p>
<p>Definitions from The Century Dictionary.</p>
<p>Consisting of land or farms; real; landed.</p>
<p>Attached to farms or land; owing service as tenanting land.</p>
<p>Consequent upon tenanting farms or land; growing or issuing from farms
or land: as, predial tithes.</p>
<p>noun A predial laborer or slave; one who owes service as a tenant of
land.</p>
<p>from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of
English.</p>
<p>adjective Consisting of land or farms; landed; ; that is, real estate.</p>
<p>adjective Attached to land or farms.</p>
<p>adjective Issuing or derived from land.</p>
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