common of shack
(UK, legal) The right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.
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(UK, legal) The right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.
It's no good exception to a Witness that he hath common per cause of Vicinage in the Lands in question, because its but an excuse of Trespass, and no interestThe same of common of Shacke
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