释义 |
common n. A à prendre">profit à prendre enjoyed by a number of landowners over common land. A right of common may be appurtenant, in gross (i.e. independent of any dominant tenement), or pur cause de vicinage (“by reason of neighbourhood”: the right to allow animals grazing common land to stray onto adjoining common land). They generally comprise rights of pasture (grazing), piscary (fishing), turbary (rare; a right to take turf), ferae naturae (a right to take animals), estovers, etc., and unless they exist in gross are usually limited to the reasonable needs of the dominant tenements. |