From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 15:41:51 MDT
Steve Davies wrote:
> ...
>
>hat was enclosed in the eighteenth century (almost entirely pasture) was
>*not* owned in common. There is still several million acres of "common land"
>in Britain and every square foot of it is privately owned. "Common land" in
>English law is privately owned land where the owner does not have the right
>to exclude others from access to the land i.e. there is a public right of
>access (in the 18th century this included the right to graze livestock). The
>Enclosure Acts were not put through by landlords against the wishes of their
>tenants. On the contrary, the Acts resulted from petitions which were signed
>and drawn up by all of the people with an interest, including the tenants.
>T...
>Steve Davies
>
Legally you may have the terms right. But how was the law enforced? I
quote:
The law forbids the man or woman
Who steals a goose from off the common
But lets the greater felon loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
So at least some portion of the population disagreed with your history.
And they were present.
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