COMMON OF SHACK
A species of common by vicinage prevailing in the counties of Norfolk, Lincoln, and Yorkshire, in England; being the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to
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A species of common by vicinage prevailing in the counties of Norfolk, Lincoln, and Yorkshire, in England; being the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to
Fr. Rising up and lying down. A term applied to trespassing cattle which have remained long enough upon laud to have lain down to rest and risen up to feed; generally the
In the manor of Bradford, in Wilts, the tenants pay to their lord a small yearly rent by this name, which is said to be for liberty to feed their hogs with
A particular meadow or pasture land set apart to feed cattle.
In the civil law. A feeding wood; a wood devoted to the feeding of cattle! Dig. 50, 16, 30, 5.
Mast of oal;s, etc., or money taken for mast, or feeding hogs. Cowell. PESSURABLE WARES. Merchandise which takes up a good deal of room in a ship. Cowell.
Pannage; a liberty for hogs to run in forests or woods to feed upon mast Mon. Angl. 1, 682.
In Spanish law. Feeding; pasture; a right of pasture. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6,
This word is applied, in England, to vessels employed in the carriage of coals. Jacob KEEP, n. A strong tower or hold in the middle of any castle or fortification, wherein the
A common of pannage is the right of feeding swine on mast and acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest. Elton, Commons, 25; Williams, Common, 168. Pannagium est pastas
In old English law. A money payment made by forest-tenants, that they might have liberty to plow and sow in time of pannage, or mast feeding.