commonable, a.
(ˈkɒmənəb(ə)l)
[f. common v. 9 + -able.]
1. Of animals: That may be pastured on common land.
| 1620 J. Wilkinson Of Courts Baron 147 If any tenant doth surcharge the common..by putting of cattel there not commonable, as pigs, goats, and geese. 1767 Blackstone Comm. II. 33 Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plough, or such as manure the ground. 1876 Digby Real Prop. iii. 163 A right of common of pasture for all commonable cattle levant and couchant upon the lands. |
2. Of land: That is or may be held in common; subject to a right of common; suitable for or pertaining to commoning (see common v. 9).
| 1649 W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 60 The Third sort..lieth deep and long drowned..onely two or three months in summer it is commonable. 1796 W. Marshall W. England II. 134 It was once the prevailing practice of Devonshire, to cultivate its commonable lands. 1832 Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. xlix. 841 Putting his cattle on the commonable land. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxviii. 670 To sustain himself and his family from the produce of his own land, and from his commonable rights. |