Common

A right to take a profit in the land of another, either with the owner, or with others, as to feed beasts, catch fish, dig turf, cut wood, or the like; a space of ground in a town or other municipal district, set apart for public use. Common appendant: an immemorial right of tenants in a manor to feed their commonable cattle on other lands of the manor. Common appurtenant: a right of feeding cattle, commonable or not commonable, on the land of another. Common because of vicinage (pur cause de vicinage): a right of common arising out of permissive intercommoning between adjoining townships, the cattle of each having been usually allowed to stray in the fields of the other. Common in gross, or at large: a right of common vested in a person or corporation, not annexed to land. Common of estovers: a right to take necessary wood for the use or furniture of a house or farm. Common of pasture: the right of feeding one's cattle on another's land, in common with the owner, or with other persons. Common of piscary, or fishery: the right or liberty of fishing in another man's water. It is different from a right of common fishery, v.

Common fishery

Common of shack: a species of common by vicinage, prevailing in parts of England, which is a right of persons occupying lands lying in a common field, to turn out their cattle after harvest to feed promiscuously in that field; a kind of common pur cause de vicinage. Common of turbary: a right of common for the digging of turf on another man's ground. It may be either by grant or prescription, and may be either appurtenant or in gross; but it can be appurtenant only to a house, not to land; and it can be only for use as fuel in that house. Common sans nombre: common without number; that is, without limit as to the number of cattle which may be turned on; otherwise called, common without stint.