Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

fabric land

Hist. Land given toward the maintenance, repair, or rebuilding of a cathedral or other church. ( This term derives from funds given ad fabricam ecclesiae reparandam ("to repair the fabric of the church"). "Fabrick-Lands are lands given towards the maintenance, rebuilding, or repair of Cathedrals or other churches .... In antient time almost every one gave by his Will more or less to the Fabrick of the Cathedral or Parish-Church where he liv'd." Thomas Blount, NomoLexicon: A Law-Dictionary (1670).