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and Wales," pursuant to the provisions of the Act of the 8th and 9th Vict. c. 118.:

And whereas the said application has been referred by the said Commissioners to me, an Assistant Commissioner, duly appointed under the said Act:

I hereby give notice, that I shall hold a meeting on the

next, at the hour of

at

of

day of

in the

in the

for the purpose of hearing

any objections which may be made to the proposed inclosure, and any information or evidence which may be offered in relation thereto.

Witness my hand this

day of

184

Assistant Inclosure Commissioner.

FORMS OF CLAIMS.

The Inclosure Commission has issued no forms for the claims to be given in to the valuer. They will be necessarily very various and must generally be specially drawn to meet the circumstances of the particular case. Three forms are submitted by the Editor, which will probably be found useful in cases of the most common occurrence.

CLAIM OF RIGHT OF COMMON OF PASTURE OVER COMMON LANDS.

To the Valuer acting in the matter of the Inclosure

of the Common of

of

I, A. B., of

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being seised in my demesne

as of fee of a certain estate, called the Manor Farm, situate in the parish of and consisting of 160 acres of freehold land, do hereby claim to be entitled for and in respect of the whole of the said freehold estate, to common of pasture in, upon, and throughout the said place called

for all my commonable cattle, levant and couchant in and upon my said estate called the Manor Farm, every year, at all times of the year, as to the said freehold estate called the Manor Farm belonging and appertaining.

CLAIM OF COMMON OF PASTURE OVER COMMONABLE LANDS.

To the Valuer acting in the matter of the Inclosure and Division of certain Common Fields in the Parish of and County of

I, A. B. being seised in demesne as of fee of a certain messuage, and acres of land, with the appurtenances, lying in the parish of

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as follows: -Whereas there now are, and from

time whereof the memory of man is not the contrary, there have been lying and being in the said parish, of in the county of

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three common fields, that is to

say, one common field called the Home Field, one other common called the Lower Field, and one other common field called the Upper Field, and which said three several common fields have, from all the said time immemorial, been used and accustomed to be, and ought to be tilled and cultivated, in every year in rotation, and successively, one of the said three fields hath been, and of right ought to be sown with wheat, or other corn or grain, and in and during that year hath been usually known and distinguished by the name of the Wheat Field; and another of the said common fields hath in such year been usually known and distinguished by the name of the Barley Field; and the other of the said common fields hath in such year lain and ought to be known and distinguished by the name of the Fallow Field, or Summer-tilled Field, so that by such rotation, each and every of the said three fields has been and ought to be, one year sown with wheat, or other corn or grain, another year sown with barley, or other corn or grain, and the third year hath lain, and ought to be fallow and summer-t r-tilled in rotation: Now I, the said A.B., do claim that by reason of being so possessed of my messuage and lands, with the appurtenances, to have common of pasture yearly and every year in and throughout such of the said common fields as by and according to the said rotation hath lain, or ought to be fallow and be

summer-tilled, my own land in that field only excepted, for fifty sheep, levant and couchant in and upon my said messuage and lands, with the appurtenances, in every such year.

CLAIM OF COMMON OF PASTURE,

Under the 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 71.

To the Valuer acting in the matter of the Inclosure of the Common of

Parish of

I, A. B., of

in the

and County of

in the county of

being seised in my demesne as

in the

of fee of a certain estate called the Manor Farm, situate in the parish of

county of

and consisting of one

hundred acres of freehold land, do hereby claim to be entitled for and in respect of the whole of the said freehold estate, to common of pasture in, upon, and throughout the said place, called the

common, for all my commonable beasts, levant and couchant, in and upon my said estate called the Manor Farm, every year, and at all times of the year, as to the said freehold estate called the Manor Farm belonging and appertaining; and I do claim the said right of common by reason of such right having been actually taken and enjoyed by myself and by those whose estate I hold, claiming right thereto, without interruption, for the full period of thirty years [or, for the full period of sixty years, as the case may be], according to the

provisions of an Act made and passed in a session of parliament held in the second and third years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for shortening the Time of Prescription in certain cases."

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