private land

Someone's personal acreage

Private land is real property owned by individuals, corporations, or other non-governmental entities rather than by the state.

The term appears most often in contexts involving access restrictions or land use rights: No hunting on private land, The trail crosses private land.

Private land contrasts with public land, which is owned by government and typically open to citizens.

Opposites
ownership/access type

private landpublic land

State-owned accessible terrain

public property · state land · government land · common land · crown land

communal vs. individual control

private landcommunal property

Collectively owned assets

community land · tribal land · common property · village commons

Family

land, private

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