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Definition of Commonage
1. Noun. Property held in common.
Definition of Commonage
1. n. The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.
Definition of Commonage
1. Noun. The condition of land that is held in common ¹
2. Noun. The right to pasture animals on common land ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Commonage
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commonage
Literary usage of Commonage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"commonage and Bights of User are practically in British woodlands confined to
the Crown forests, which are not the absolute property of the State, ..."
2. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1891)
"commonage, the associate possession of land for tillage and pasture, was almost
as effective in our early ..."
3. Early New England Towns; a Comparative Study of Their Development by Anne Bush MacLear (1908)
"commonage of woods, as well as of land, was the custom in these towns. In 1636
the selectmen of Salem set aside all the land " along the shore on Darby's ..."
4. Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes by Walter Shaw Sparrow (1908)
"It is popularly believed that all inhabitants of a manor could be quite free-and-easy
with the rights of commonage, could use them as they pleased at all ..."
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