Fold-Course
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In English Law. Land used as a sheep-walk. Land to which the sole right of folding the cattle of others is appurtenant: sometimes it means merely such right of folding. The right of folding on another’s land, which is called common foldage.
Co. Litt. 6 a, note 1; W. Jones 375; Cro. Car. 432; 2 Ventr. 139.
FOLD -SOKE
A feudal service which consisted in the obligation of the tenant not to have a fold of his own but to have his sheep lie in the lord’s fold. He was said to be conauetua ad foldam, tied to his lord’s fold. The basis ofl Jiis service Is thus expressed by a recent writer: ‘Tt is manure that the lord wants; the demand for manure has played a large part in the history of tlfe human race.”
Maitland, Domesday Book 76.
In East Anglia the peasants had sheep enough to make this an important social im stitution; id.
442.