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Approvement

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Approvement, improvement, as where there exists a right of common of pasture on a lord's waste, and the lord encloses part of such waste, leaving sufficient common of pasture, as he is bound to do by the Statue of Merton, 20 Hen. 3, c. 4, which prescribes in what cases lords may 'approve' against tenants; and see 13 Edw. 1, st. 2, c. 46; and INCLOSURE.

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