"A common entry in Domesday is that in a particular place there is sufficient pasture for the cattle; sometimes, but more rarely, the mention of sufficient wood also occurs. In these cases the quantity of waste land was not even practically unlimited, and the modes of appropriation of its benefits and proceeds had to be devised and kept up for the sake of the community to avoid destruction and to prevent unfair advantage being taken by some of the participants. In this connection the common appears as included in the territory of a definite rural community, and the right to use it is said in later legal language to be appendant to the holdings of this community, nor is there any reasonable ground for supposing that the principles on which these rights were apportioned and regulated were altogether different in earlier times. Without vouching for details, we may suppose that the customary jurisprudence of the feudal age fairly represents the main ideas which prevailed among the Saxons."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Paul Vinogradoff, The Growth of the Manor (1905) Book II. The Old English Period, Ch. IV The Open Field System
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Middle_Ages
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Middle Ages
64 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Middle Ages →
Related Quotes
"Thou sayst: 'I see the air, I see the fire, The water, and the earth, and all their mixtures Come to corruption, and …"
"The existence of God may be proved in five ways. The first and most manifest way is the argument from motion. ...What…"
"We know Chaucer in the only way in which the greater authors generally have cared to be known. ...All we need further…"
"Music historians have learned that the language and approach of musical theory in the Middle Ages were borrowed direc…"
"[...] there are things in the media that can be spoken ill of with impunity: the Middle Ages is one of them. And this…"
"My own case for Christianity is rational; but it is not simple. It is an accumulation of varied facts, like the attit…"
"No two ideals could be more opposite than a Christian saint in a Gothic cathedral and a Buddhist saint in a Chinese t…"
"I do not mean to say... that these love discussions... were without their influence upon the conduct and ideals of co…"
"This volume, it is believed, contains all the most important tales which formed the great body of mediaeval legend or…"
"Thou sayest, 'Well discern I what I hear; But it is hidden from me why God willed For our redemption only this one mo…"