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Farm or ferm

payable by the tenant. It is a collective word, consisting of many things, as a messuage, land, meadow, pasture, wood, common, etc. In Lancashire a farm was called fermholt; in the north, a tack; and in Essex,

Forest

(which means all animals pursued in field sports), in a certain teritory or precinct of woody ground and pasture set apart for the purpose, with laws and officers of its own, established for protection of the game,

Hayward

man or responsible for maintaining fences and hedges, esp. to prevent cattle from breaking through to an enclosed pasture; A cattle herdsman, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 723

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Hypothec

Vict. c. 12), as to the rent of land, exceeding two acres in extent, let for agriculture or pasture. It is restricted in certain cases by the House-letting and Rating Act, 1911. A mortgage given to a

Quo jure

Quo jure, a writ which lay for him who had land wherein another challenged common of pasture, time out of mind; and it was to compel him to show by what title he challenged it,

Intare mariscum

Intare mariscum, to drain a marsh or low ground, and convert it into herbage pasture.

Jampnum

Jampnum, furze, or grass, or ground where furze grows; as distinguished from arable, pasture, or the like, Co. Litt. 5 a.

Knight's fee

which was 20l. per annum (2 Inst. 596). By the grant of a knight's fee, land, meadow, and pasture may pass as parcel of it, and even a manor if it is usually called so. Consult Shep.

Lea or ley

Lea or ley, a pasture, Co. Litt. 4 b.

Merton, Statute of

(1) allow the inclosure or 'approvement' of commons by lords of manors, provided that the freeholders have sufficient pasture (subject to the consent of the (English) Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (56 & 57 Vict. c. 57);

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