Shack
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
COMMON OF. The right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle after harvest to feed promiscuously in such field.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Common.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In English law. The straying and escaping of cattle out of the lands of their owners into other uninclosed land; an intercommoning of cattle. 2 H. Bl. 416. It sometimes happens that a number of adjacent fields, though held in severalty, i. e., by separate owners, and cultivated separately, are, after the crop on each parcel has been carried im thrown open as pasture to the cattle of all the owners. "Arable lands cultivated on this plan are called 'shack fields,' and the right of each owner of a part to feed cattle over the whole during the autumn and winter is known in law as 'common of shack,' a right which is distinct in its nature from common because of vicinage, though sometimes said to be nearly identical with it" Elton, Commons, 30; Sweet
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In English law. an intercommoning of
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
v. Common.