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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

In English law

A right in land for the use of cattle.* Called in Suffolk, a beast-gate, and in Yorkshire a cattlegate. It is a corporeal interest in land, distinguishable from the mere right of common of pasture.

1 Chitt. Gen. Pr. 182.