Commons, Forests and Footpaths: The Story of the Battle During the Last Forty-Five Years for Public Rights Over the Commons, Forests and Footpaths of England and Wales (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

George Shaw-Lefevre Eversley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0260944300 ISBN 13 : 9780260944306

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Commons, Forests and Footpaths: The Story of the Battle During the Last Forty-Five Years for Public Rights Over the Commons, Forests and Footpaths of England and Wales

The greater part of the following work is a reprint, revised and extended, of a book which I published in 1894, under the title of English Commons and Forests, in which I gave an account of the battle, since 1865, for the preservation of the Common lands and Forests of England and Wales.

The immediate cause of the publication was that in the previous year, 1893, two most important results had been achieved. In the first place, Parliament had passed a measure for the virtual repeal of the Statute of Merton, one of the earliest enactments, under the assumed sanction of which all the attempted inclosures of Commons during the period referred to were made. In the second place, after a thirteen years'' struggle in the law courts, for the saving of Banstead Commons, Parliament, in spite of most determined opposition before Select Committees of both Houses, had sanctioned a Scheme for the regulation of those Commons, by which they were placed under the control and management of a body of Conservators elected by the ratepayers of the district. Parliament therefore had decided that the control and management of a Metropolitan Common might be practically taken out of the hands of the Lord of the Manor, in spite of his opposition, and transferred to an elective body, in the interest of the district.

These two important measures had virtually effected a legal revolution in the relation of Lords of Manors and their Commoners to the public with respect to Commons. It was thought, therefore, that the occasion had arisen for putting on record the history of the movement, and for describing in detail the course of litigation which had so large a part in forming public opinion and in rendering possible this litigation.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0260944300
• ISBN 13: 9780260944306
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 423
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