Faldage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Faldage is a noun meaning (law, obsolete) A fee paid for exemption from this.
Meaning
(law, obsolete) A fee paid for exemption from this.
More Meanings
- (law, Norfolk, Suffolk, obsolete) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle therein. This privilege was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
Example Sentences
It was decided , in a case where the lord of a manor had liberty of faldage and a fold-course for 300 sheep over certain closes within the manor, that the lessee of these rights could not feed his own sheep over these closes
Word Forms
- faldages
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include foldage, fell, falding, fardingdale, fardel, furlong.
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