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Common land, means land subject to rights of common (which includes cattlegates or beastgates and rights of sole or several vesture or herbage or of sole of several pasture, but not rights held for a term of years or from year to year). Whether those rights are exercisable at all time or only during limited periods, and waste land of a manor not subject to rights of common, but does not include a town or village green or any land forming part of a Highway, Commons Registration Act, 1965, s. 22(1); Animals Act, 1971, s. 11 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 474, p. 240.