faldage

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noun

A privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle therein. This privilege was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.

OriginLatin faldagium ← Old English fald →
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Meanings

nounfaldage (countable and uncountable, plural faldages)

plural faldages

  1. NorfolkcountableobsoleteuncountablelawA privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle therein. This privilege was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.

    It was decided , in a case where the lord of a manor had liberty of faldage and a fold-course for 300 sheep over certain closes within the manor, that the lessee of these rights could not feed his own sheep over these closes

    1868, Charles Isaac Elton, A Treatise on Commons and Wastelands
  2. countableobsoleteuncountablelawA fee paid for exemption from this.

Origin

  1. Old Englishfald
  2. Latinfaldagium
  3. Englishfaldage

From Latin faldagium, from Old English fald (whence English fold). Compare foldage.

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