Sentence examples for some common lands from inspiring English sources

From the 15th to the 17th century, holdings gradually increased in size, some common lands were enclosed, and attempts were made to drain the marshes.

In France there was no significant enclosure movement, despite enabling legislation that allowed the division of some common lands in 1767 and again in 1773.

By 1623 there had been several small Enclosures of agricultural land in the parish and by 1685 some common lands were reported to have been enclosed, with further enclosures reported between 1702 and 1785.

Following the conversion, some common land uses, which have been conventionally managed, have evolved.

A possible reason for the confusion may be because the land immediately south of Boston Neck was not privately owned and considered "common lands", leading some writers to misinterpret this as being the Boston Common.

Some were social reformers, such as Gerrard Winstanley, whose followers, agrarian communists known as Diggers, believed that the common lands should be returned to the common people.

So the Party decided that women would sow seeds on common lands, which belongs to the Jantana Sarkar.

Most henequen was produced on large plantations and, to a lesser extent from the 1930s, on cooperative ejidos (common lands).

By the end of the 19th century the process of the enclosure of common lands in England was virtually complete.

He saw at first hand the transforming process of enclosure, in which common lands were taken over by rich landowners, and was appalled by its "lawless law".

This unprecedented corporate privatisation and enclosure of the world's common lands – its pastures, fields and forests – is being done in the name of development.