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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 See the (English) Repealed Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict.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....
Lammas
The first day of August called also Lammas day and Lammastide...
Lammas
Lammas [said to be derived from a custom by which the tenants of the Archbishop of York were obliged, at the time of Mass, on the 1st of August, to bring a live lamb to the altar. In Scotland they are said to wear lambs on this day. It may be corrupted from latter-math. Others derive it from a Saxon word, signifying loaf-mass, because on that day our forefathers made an offering of bread composed of new wheat], the gule or 1st of August, and the second of the four cross quarter-days of the year, Encyc. Londin.; Wheat. Com. Pr....
Profit a prendre
Profit a prendre, ' right for a man, in respect of his tenement, to take some profit out of the tenement of another man. Except in the case of a copyholder no claim of a profit ' prendre in alieno solo can be made by custom, nor can it be claimed by a fluctuating body such as the inhabitants of a place (Williams on Rights of Common, p. 194). See LAMMAS LANDS. A prescription in a que estate for a profit a prendre in alieno solo without stint and for commercial purposes is unknown to the law, Harris v. Chesterfield (Earl), 1911 AC 623. As to a demise of a profit a prendre, see Radcliff v. Hayes, (1907) 1 Ir R 101. A profit a prendre in gross is a right of property which may be dealt with and transferred in the manner appropriate to the right, Welcome v. Upton, (1840) 6 M&W 536. Consult Gale on Easements, and Hall on Profits a Prende....
Yule
Yule [fr. jule, Dan; gehul, geol, sax], the times of Christmas and Lammas....
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