commonage

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It is the way your forefathers understood the law of commonage, and nobody ever grumbled that his neighbor had a cow or a pig too many!

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

His pony was only grazing on the town commonage hard by; he could have him brought in less than half an hour.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram

The whole baronetage, peerage, and commonage of England did not contain a more cunning, mean, foolish, disreputable old rogue than Sir Pitt Crawley.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

He grazed on the town commonage; besides grass, he never got anything to eat but an occasional handful of mealies.

From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

In the evening we heard that the enemy were at Glen Lennie on their way to Harrismith, and that a patrol had already reached the town commonage.

From Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet by Kestell, J. D. (John Daniel)