ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Commonable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Commonable is an adjective meaning (of land) Owned, managed or used in common.

Meaning

(of land) Owned, managed or used in common.

More Meanings

  1. Of an animal: that may be pastured on common land.

Example Sentences

Much good land might be gained from forests […] and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.
The defendant's tort-feasance is now set forth with the damage, and the plaintiff says, that the defendant with an intention to injure him in the enjoyment of his commonable estate, during the time of his being so entitled to his common, wrongfully put and depastured several cattle on the waste there, in consequence of which, he has been unable to make use of his commonable profits in as ample and beneficial a manner as he otherwise might.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shared, participable, commodifiable, ownable, sharable, popular.

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