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Falcare

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from falcare, a scythe.] 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.

Kennett's Gloss

Herbam falcare.

Reg. Orig. 94.

Jus falcandi; the right of cutting wood. Bract. fol.

231.

Falcata; grass fresh mown, and laid in swathes. Kennett's Gloss. Falcatio; a mowing. Bract. fol.

35 b, 230.

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

Id.