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Definition of Common land
1. Noun. A pasture subject to common use.
Definition of Common land
1. Noun. (British Irish) an area of land in the United Kingdom or Ireland that is open to the public at all times and until the 18th century would have been land that was free for anybody to graze their animals on (often shortened to common). ¹
2. Noun. (UK Irish) collectively, all the common land in one of those two countries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Land
Literary usage of Common land
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Crime in England: Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the by Luke Owen Pike (1873)
"There was a common land in . England. right of mast, turbary, and pasture in ...
By degrees, however, the common land diminished in quantity as parts of it ..."
2. Early New England Towns: A Comparative Study of Their Development by Anne Bush MacLear (1908)
"Dorchester granted the use of the common land for various purposes as, in 1652, "
to set a house on for a sap house." 2 As the town increased in numbers and ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"... common of land is sued for an injury arising from the state of their common
land, a nonjoinder of the other cotenants may be pleaded in abatement.1 This ..."
4. The Land Laws by Frederick Pollock (1883)
"As to common land, there is no reason to think that communities as such had any
power of alienating their lands, either by book or otherwise, ..."
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