Premises are land and buildings together considered as a property.
This usage arose from property owners finding the word in their title deeds, where it originally correctly meant "the aforementioned; what this document is about", from Latin prae-missus = "placed before".
[citation needed] In this sense, the word is always used in the plural, but singular in construction.
Premises registration is "a way to locate where livestock or dead animals are kept or congregated.
[1] As of January 13, 2009 the USDA has entered into the federal register a document which provides for the expansion of implementation of a mandatory national animal identification system to be effective January 2010.