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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.