Oxfild
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A restitution anciently made by a hundred or county for any wrong done by one that was within the same.
Lambard, Arch. 125.
OXGANG (from Saxon, gang, soins, and ox; Law Lat. hovata).
In old English law
So much land as an ox could till. According to some, fifteen acres.
Co. Litt. 69a; Cromp. Jur. 220.
According to Balfour, the Scotch oxengang, or oxgate, contained twelve acres; but this does not correspond with ancient charters. See Bell, Diet. "Ploughgate." Skene says thirteen acres.
Cowell.