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Definition of Inclosure

1. Noun. Something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter.

2. Noun. The act of enclosing something inside something else.

Definition of Inclosure

1. n. The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.

Definition of Inclosure

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of enclosure) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inclosure

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inclosure

inclinometers inclip inclipped inclipping inclips incloister incloistered incloistering incloisters inclose

inclosed incloser inclosers incloses inclosing inclosure (current term) inclosures incloud inclouded inclouding

inclouds includability includable include include me out included includes includible including inclusa

Literary usage of Inclosure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"THE idea which the word " inclosure " ordinarily suggests is inclosure of a ... By such inclosure rights of common of pasture or fuel are abolished over a ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Down to the year 1800 this was effected by private inclosure Acts, of which there were as many as 1600 or 1700. The provisions which it haU been customary ..."

3. On Parliamentary Government in England: Its Origin, Development, and by Alpheus Todd (1887)
"And, in 1872, the inclosure commissioners reported that they had suspended their operations, until Parliament should have agreed upon a definite policy in ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"In any case if the inclosure shall be found to be unlawful, the court shall make the proper order, Judgment, or decree for the destruction of the inclosure. ..."

5. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"1a English inclosure and commons acts.—The inclosure of common fields and waste lands, and the consequent extinction of common rights therein, ..."

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