Inclosure Commission Act
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
1846. The statute 8 and 9 Viet. c. 118, establishing a board of commissioners for England and Wales and empowering them, on the application of persons interested to the amount of one-thirfi of the value of the land, and provided the consent of persons interested to the amount of two-thirds of the land and of the lord of the manor (In case the land be waste of a manor) be ultimately obtained, to inquire into the case and to report to parliament as to the expediency of making the inclosure. 1 Steph. Com. 655. INCLUDE (Lat. in claudere to shut in, keep within). In a legacy of “one hundred dollars including money trusteed” at a bank, it was held that the word "including” extended only to a gift of one hundred dollars; Brainard v. Darling, 132 Mass. 218; but in a bequest of a sum of money inclusive of a note of the legatee, it was held that the note was included in the legacy; Pepper’s Estate, 154 Pa. 340, 25 Atl. 1063.