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Report of the Committee Appointed by the Board of Agriculture to Take into Consideration the State of the Waste Lands and Common Fields of This Kingdom
Board of Agriculture (Great Britain). Committee Appointed to Take into Consideration the State of the Waste Lands and Common Fields of This Kingdom.Date: 1795- E-books
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The law of commons and commoners or a treatise shewing the original and nature of common, And the several Kinds thereof, Viz. Common Appendant, Appurtenant, Estovers, Turbary, Peschary and pur Cause of Vicinage, of Commons in Gross, and Sans Number, with the Pleadings in reference to every of them. As also the powers and privileges of commoners, in reference to the Soil, to the Lord, to Strangers, and of the Remedies and Actions they may have. Of Declarations, Pleadings, in and to Actions brought by and against Commoners. Approvement, Apportionment, Suspension and Extinguishment of Common. Of Grant of Common, and by what Words Common shall pass. Together With the Learning of Prescriptions in General; the Form and Manner of Pleading Prescription, in reference to Common, in several Rules. Of Prescription and Pleading by a Copyholder in reference to Common. Of Evidence to prove Prescription for Common, the several Customs of Commoners, and of Enclosures. with several forms of precedents adapted to every Sort of Common.
Date: 1720- E-books
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The advantages and disadvantages of inclosing waste lands and open fields , impartially stated and considered. By a country gentleman.
Country gentlemanDate: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- E-books
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An essay , proving, that inclosing commons, and common-field-lands, is contrary to the interest of the nation: In which some Passages in the New System of Agriculture, by J. Laurence M.A. and in the Duty and Office of a Land-Steward, by E. Laurence, Land-Surveyor, are examined. Dedicated to James Oglethorpe Esq; Member of Parliament for Haslemere in the County of Surrey.
Cowper, John, farmer.Date: 1732- E-books
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Letter to Sir John Sinclair, bart. from John Robinson, Esq., surveyor-general of woods and forests : 5th April, 1794.
Robinson, John, 1727-1802.Date: 1794