commonable

How to use commonable in a sentence

• Wages, however, were then eked out by home industries and commonable rights.

  The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William Hunt

• The Forest became one of the commonable lands of Royal Chases or hunting-grounds.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 | Various

• Some of the largest tracts of waste land to be found in England are the waste or commonable lands of royal forests or chases.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 | Various

• The commonable alps are let by auction for a term of years, and, in opposition to ancient principles, strangers may bid for them.

  Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum | James W. Sullivan

• At Huntingdon, for example, it was the freemen dwelling in "commonable" houses who were privileged to use the common.

  The Customs of Old England | F. J. Snell