common of shack

English

common of shack (uncountable)

(UK, law) The right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.
- 1665, Giles Duncombe, Tryals per Pais:
  It's no good exception to a Witness that he hath common per cause of Vicinage in the Lands in question, because its but an excuse of Trespass, and no interest […] The same of common of Shacke