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Falcare

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In old English law

To mow. Falcare prata, to mow or cut grass in meadows laid in for hay. A customary service to the lord by his inferior tenants. Jus falcandi, the right of cutting wood. Bract, fol.

231.

Falcata, grass fresh mown, and laid in swaths. Falcatio, a mowing. Bract fols.

35b, 230.

Falcator, a mower; a servile tenant who performed the labor of mowing. Falcatura, a day's mowing.