commonage

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

The estate of Asbies contained fifty acres of arable land, six of meadow, and a right of commonage.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

In 1663, there was a “house called the Goat at Little Chelsea,” which, between that year and 1713, enjoyed the p. 95right of commonage for two cows and one heifer upon Chelsea Heath.

From A Walk from London to Fulham by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)

The deer were suffered to run loose upon their lands; and many oppressions were used with relation to the claim of commonage which the people had in most of the forests.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund