common land meaning

Noun: common land

1. A pasture subject to common use
   - commons

Derived forms: common lands

Type of: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pastureland

Encyclopedia: Common land

[Law]
Land subject to rights of common. The Commons Registration Act 1965provides for the registration with local authorities of all common land in England and Wales, its owners, and claims to rights of common over it. Subject to the investigation by Commons Commissioners of disputed cases, and to exceptions for land becoming or ceasing to be common land, registration provides conclusive evidence that land is common land and also of the rights of common over it. Rights could be lost by failure to register.

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1. most of the land his tribe occupied was common land on which the cattle grazed together.
2. the right to pasture animals on common land
3. The live stock depends for grazing on common lands in villages.
4. The interior of Gower consists mainly of farmland and common land.
5. The heath itself is not common land, but manorial waste.