| 单词 | in venville |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin venville A special form of tenure obtaining in parishes adjoining Dartmoor, by which the tenants enjoy certain privileges in the use of the forest. Usually in the phrase in venville. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > types of tenure in specific localities gavelkind1205 venville?13.. booking1812 mailo1908 ?13.. in Trans. Devonshire Assoc. (1876) VIII. 408 M[emorandu]m quod Tenent[es] d[omi]ni princip[is in] Wengefeild al[ia]s Vennefeld clamant..habere eos articulos et libertates subscript. infra forestam de Dartmoore. ?13.. in Trans. Devonshire Assoc. (1876) VIII. 408 Et eorum Tenentes iacent in vengefeild [etc.]. 1609 in S. Rowe Peramb. Dartmoor (1848) 279 Blacktorrebeare (which is part in the Forest of Dartmoore and part in Venvill). 1794 R. Fraser Gen. View Devon 49 It is customary..to take from those not in venville one shilling. 1829 T. Moore Hist. Devon I. iv. i. 473 Many of them belonged to parishes lying in what is called venville, which paid annually for the cattle, when trespassing within the forest bounds, certain compensations, entitled ‘fines villarum’, thence corrupted into ‘fin vil’ and ‘venville’. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 450/2 Part of the waste [of Dartmoor] is appropriated by the surrounding parishes, the freeholders of which possess the right of common, or as it is termed the right of venville, on these appropriated parts. 1887 W. F. Collier in Trans. Devonshire Assoc. XIX. 378 The tenants in venville are said to have the right to take anything off Dartmoor..except green oak and venison. < as lemmas |
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