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England may be enjoyed, with a sketch of the law by which such enjoyment is secured and regulated. Some care has been taken to avoid the unnecessary use of technical terms, and thus to make the book intelligible to laymen, without, it is hoped, sacrificing accuracy and precision of language. Common rights have been the subject of many legal treatises, and the Lectures of the late Mr. Joshua Williams deal exhaustively with the topic from an abstract point of view. This volume treats rather of the several descriptions of land which are subject to common rights, and of those rights as the means by which such lands may be protected from inclosure. Thus, it has not been thought desirable to deal elaborately with such questions as that of surcharge between commoner and commoner, or those arising upon the partition of common lands under a Parliamentary
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Sir Robert Hunter (1844–1913) became a leading legal authority on common land. As solicitor to the Commons Preservation Society, where he first met Octavia Hill, he was instrumental in saving Hampstead Heath, Epping Forest and the New Forest for the nation, and he developed the principles of protection upon which the National Trust would be founded. First published in 1896, and informed by a lifetime of experience, this work was devised specifically to instruct 'those who are interested in preserving the open lands of the country'. Covering iconic English landscapes ranging from cliff tops to forests and from village greens to allotments, each chapter explores real cases and the statutes that shaped their conclusions. The result is an account of the nineteenth-century legal developments that provided the foundations which both government and charitable bodies have since used in preserving the heritage - both natural and man-made - of the nation.
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