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Common pasture. The major part of the farms in England have a right of feeding certain cattle at different seasons of the year, as an appurtenant; which right passes on sale or lease of the land; and when an act is passed for inclosing the commonable lands in the parish, &c., where the farm is situate, the commonable lands are then generally divided between the persons entitled to the tithes, and the freeholders, in proportion to their respective interests in the land, in the parish, &c.
