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Land
1. Means and includes everything up to the sky and down to the center of the earth unless specifically excepted.
2. Means lands, messuages, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal, or incorporeal of every nature or description, and every estate or interest is legal or equitable, together with paths, passages, ways, water courses, liberties, privileges and easements appertaining thereto and trees and timber thereon, and mines, minerals and quarries thereon or thereunder lying or being, unless any such are specifically excepted.

Land Descriptor - The text based description of a parcel, originating out of the Dominion Land Survey and Secondary Survey Plans registered through Plan Processing.

Land Description - Primary or Secondary land descriptors.

Land Registration Districts - The districts within the province maintained under the Old Paper-based System.

LAND System - The Land Titles Automated Network Delivery System.  It is the computer-based system that replaces the previous paper-based system. 

Land Title Registration Date - The date that an instrument, writ of execution or maintenance order was registered in the Old Paper-based System. 

Land Title Registration Number - The registration number assigned to an instrument,  writ of execution or maintenance order in the Old Paper-based System. 

Land Titles Automated Development Project (LAND Project) - A joint project between the Department of Justice and SaskGeomatics to automate and re-engineer the old Land Titles and Chief Surveyor’s functions. 

Lapsed Interest - Refers to changing of the status code of an interest to inactive, successfully de-activated through the Notice to Lapse process.

Large Format Prints - Any print request that exceeds the margins of an 8 ½" by 11" sheet of paper. 

Last Amendment Date - The most recent date and time that the title or abstract was modified (e.g., by transfer; by an interest being registered, discharged, or amended). 

Latitude/longitude - A commonly used plane co-ordinate system (map projection) defining the locations of features on the earth’s surface which is referenced to an ellipsoid. 

Law of agency - Subject to exceptions, whatever a person has power to do himself or herself, he or she may do by means of an agent.

Layer - See Coverage.

Lease (new) - A financial interest, with no restriction as to term or use.

Lease (old) - A document executed by the registered owner of fee simple lands allowing a second party to occupy their lands for a specific duration. Must be for a term of more than 10 years if the lessor wishes a leasehold title to issue. Must be for a term of more than 3 years to register as a lease within the system. 

Leasehold estate - The estate in real property of a lessee, created by a lease. It generally refers to an estate whose duration is fixed but may also be used to describe a tenancy at will, periodic tenancy, etc.

Leasehold Interest - The estate and interest a lessee has in real property that was created by a lease.

Leasehold Title - The Old Paper-based title that is based on a registered lease interest that is for a prescribed term of not less than 10 years. Note: this type of title will no longer be issued in the Land Registry. 

Legal description (old) - The text based description of a parcel of land, originating out of the Dominion Land Survey and subsequent plans registered through the Chief Surveyor’s Office.

Legal estate
1. The registered owner of an estate or charge deemed of everything up to the sky and down to the center of the earth.
2. The interest that anyone has in lands which is proper or sufficient to be recognized in courts of law.

Legal Notice - An interest registered within the Title Processing System (TPS) as prescribed by an Act. It is not capable of being attacked by the Notice to Lapse procedure and cannot have subordinate interests tied to it.

Legal subdivision - A theoretic area by calculation into ¼’s of each quarter section. 

Lessee - The person or entity granting a lease. LessorThe person or entity accepting or benefiting from a lease.

Letters of Administration - Letters that are issued to a person chosen by the court to administer the estate of a deceased person. Issued when the deceased failed to name an executor in his or her will, when the named executor is unable to be the executor, or where the deceased left no will. Currently issued by the Court of Queens’ Bench.

Letters Patent - This refers to an original grant from the Crown.
 
Letters Probate - Letters issued out of the Court of Queen’s Bench, wherein the court is naming the Executors of the estate, as shown in the Last Will and Testament, which is registered in their office.

Level - A map layer or coverage containing one unique set of features such as roads.

Liberties
1. The right of access.
2. Freedom in enjoyment and use of property; freedom of occupation.

Lien - A charge or security or encumbrance upon property. 

Lien Claimant - See Lien Holder. Lien HolderThe person or entity named as the claimant in a lien. 

Lis Pendens - A certificate issued out of the Court of Queen’s Bench cautioning interested parties that some title or interest involving specific lands is being challenged through the courts. 

Live Instruments - All instruments not capable of being withdrawn or canceled in the Land Titles System today. 

Local Registrar’s Certificate (Certificate of No Infants) (LRC) - Certificate issued by the Local Registrar that no infants are interested in the estate of a deceased owner.   

Lock - A status code or the act that freezes a title or interest and prohibits any future dealing with the title or interest until the issue out of which the locking occurred has been resolved.  

Lock Type - Include General Registrar’s Prohibition, General Registrar’s Prohibition on Transfer, Uncertified Mineral - Transfer Permitted, Uncertified Mineral - Transfer Prohibited, and Builders’ Lien Lock.

Log Stamp - Shows the date, time and user identification of the operator that affected the entry into the database.   

Lost DCT - An affidavit(s) or declaration(s) by registered owners of specific lands stating that they have lost or accidentally destroyed their DCT, and stating that the lands have not been pledged, mortgaged or hypothecated.

Lunatic - A person found to be not of sound mind.