Common grazing land
With the the Middle Ages and under the Ancien Mode the common grazing land is a right of use which makes it possible to make feed free its cattle apart from its grounds, in the edges of the ways, the waste lands, the naked grounds their cultures, the wood of mature standing timber, the coppices of more than 4 or 5 years. The course is also a right of common grazing land that two close parishes agree reciprocally.
At the time feudal, the owner of a ground loses the use of it after the harvest (or first cut for a meadow). The Thatch S, the renewal belong to the community and can be used freely by whoever. It is the same for the grounds on the plate in Jachère.
This practice made it possible for a long time poorest of the community to maintain the cattle (one or two heads maximum) even without having ground.
Preventing the fence of the grounds, this right is disputed to the 18th century, by the owners who want to permanently use their grounds thanks to the new ways of cultivating. Starting from the royal edict of 1761, in Béarn, Burgundy, Champagne and Lorraine, one makes it possible to close the grounds and the meadows. There were many trespasses and many lawsuits. Many a registers of grievances of 1789 require the maintenance or the re-establishment of the common grazing land.
The common grazing land is finally abolished in France by the law of the July 9th 1889.
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