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Common land   /kˈɑmən lænd/   Listen
Common land

noun
1.
A pasture subject to common use.  Synonym: commons.






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"Common land" Quotes from Famous Books



... "over-population" came to light all at once, and could not, as in the manufacturing districts, be absorbed by the needs of an increasing production. New factories could always be built, if there were consumers for their products, but new land could not be created. The cultivation of waste common land was too daring a speculation for the bad times following the conclusion of peace. The necessary consequence was that the competition of the workers among each other reached the highest point of intensity, and wages fell to the minimum. So long as the old Poor Law existed, ...
— The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 • Frederick Engels



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