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Gavelkind

Saxon word 'gafol,' or, as it is otherwise written, 'gavel,' which signifies 'rent' or a 'customary performance of husbandry works'; accordingly the land which yielded this kind of service, in contradistinction to knight-service land, was called 'GAVELKIND'

Carucate

all one), is not of any certain content, but as much as a plow can by course of husbandry plough in a year.'-Co. Litt. 69 a. This quantity varies in different counties from 60 to 120 acres.

Common

sometimes called fire-bote; plough-bote and cart-bote are wood to be employed in making and repairing all instruments of husbandry; and hay-bote or hedge-bote is wood for repairing of hays, hedges, or fences, See 2 Bl. Com. 32;

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Commercial utilisation

does not include conventional breeding or traditional practices in use in any agriculture, horticulture, poultry, dairy farming, animal husbandry or bee keeping. [Biological Diversity Act, (18 of 2003), s. 2(f)]

Chattels or catals

Catalla, Lat.; chatel, Fr.; chaptel, Old Fr.]. The word 'catalla' among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry or, as they are still called, cattle, but in a secondary sense the term was extended to all

Catalla

Catalla, chattels. The word among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry, or, as they are still called, 'cattle'; but in a secondary sense the term was applied to all

Bowling, game of

of which repeals 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, which Act by s. 16 decreed that labourers, 'servants at husbandry,' fishermen, and others named therein, might not play bowls or other games named therein 'out of Christmas,' and

Agriculture

all activities in relation to land including horticulture, forestry, breeding and rearing of livestock, dairying, butter and cheese-making, husbandry, etc. Whether the narrower or the wider sense of the term 'agriculture' should be adopted in a particular

Agricultural land

Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as including 'horticulture, forestry and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables and

Serf

A servant or slave employed in husbandry and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it as formerly in Russia

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