Do commoner's rights exist in your country?
By urbandekay
@urbandekay (18278)
October 11, 2011 12:47pm CST
Where I live, commoner's rights are enshrined in the deeds of the house; these confer on the householder the right to collect timber and graze animals on the common. Do you have similar laws there?
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4 responses
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
11 Oct 11
We do have English Common Law down here. I'm not sure to what extent these laws apply to the collection of firewood & the grazing of animals though - especially here in the semi-rural suburbs. Maybe I should try them out & see what happens? I'm sure my pet cockatiel would love to go on a grazing expedition, but so would the nearest cat, dog, hawk or eagle.
I'll have to & check what other rights we have to the common land here. I know of several community gardens projects which have been operating for many years whereby residents who contribute get a portion of the garden's produce, come the harvest. Do they have these running in England too?
I'll have to & check what other rights we have to the common land here. I know of several community gardens projects which have been operating for many years whereby residents who contribute get a portion of the garden's produce, come the harvest. Do they have these running in England too?@urbandekay (18278)
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12 Oct 11
Yes, we have community garden projects here. Mind you part of my manifesto is that every one must cultivate a small area of land or pay someone to do it for you
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@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
12 Oct 11
That's the spirit!
Organic too, I'll wager - following in the example of Prince Charles' Organic Garden?

@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
11 Oct 11
So do you actually make use of your rights? They tend to have delightful names like 'turbary' and 'estovers' and 'firebote'.
I suspect that you live in the New Forest where there are still many of such old rights still included in the deeds of the property.
One that I particularly liked was the right to own a property provided that you could erect a permanent structure in a day and have smoke coming out of the chimney. I am not sure of the details but I believe that it still applies to some common land in Worcestershire.
@urbandekay (18278)
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11 Oct 11
New Forest? Guess again. Yes, collect wood but haven't grazed an animal - yet
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