commonage

Example Sentences

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We came over a rolling down towards the commonage.

From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly

The rights of men are liberty and an equal participation in the commonage of nature.”

From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.

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 indaba began upon small matters, a recent dispute or two as to the ownership of cattle, or of land commonage, and so forth.

From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram

No parcelling out of the land forbids him to improve to the least advantage the portion he possesses, and no right of commonage, belonging to many, prevents each from deriving profit from his share.

From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)