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.