common of shack

noun

The right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.

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nouncommon of shack (uncountable)
  1. UKuncountablelawThe right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.

    It's no good exception to a Witness that he hath common per cause of Vicinage in the Lands in question, because its but an excuse of Trespass, and no interest[…]The same of common of Shacke

    1665, Giles Duncombe, Tryals per Pais
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