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Lammas lands. Lands over which there is a several right of either arable or meadow crop but as soon as the crop has been taken a commonable right of pasturage arises generally from about Lammas (1st August) (reaping time), until 25th march (sowing time), in which the holders who had the several rights are included. No right by grant exists except in a corporation or other trustees for the benefit of the inhabitants, the latter being an indefinite body unascertainable at the time of grant. See the (English) Repealed Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. C. 62), s. 13; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Tithe,' as to commutation of tithe thereon, and see Baylis v. Tyssen Amherst, (1877) 6 Ch D 500.