单词 | faldage |
释义 | faldagen. Law. An old privilege by which a lord of the manor could set up folds in any fields within the manor, in which his tenants were obliged to put their sheep, the object being to manure the land. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right of lord to folding tenants' sheep foldage1533 fold-course1538 frankfold1609 frankfoldage1628 faldage1692 1692 Coles's Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Faldage, the Lords liberty of folding his tenants sheep. 1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 330 This Faldage in some places is termed Fold-course or Free-fold. 1865 F. M. Nichols tr. Britton II. 373 His right of faldage, i.e. to have the tenant's sheep to manure his land. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1692 |
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