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What is a turbary?

What is a turbary? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A piece of peatland from which turf may be cut for fuel.
  2. Material extracted from a turbary.
  3. The right to cut turf from a turbary on a common or in some cases, another person's land.
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Many bog owners and people with turbary rights cut turf on an acre plot.
Their rights of usufruct, grazing, pannage, estovers, turbary and piscary survived for many centuries before being terminated: first informally, later in wholesale acts of enclosure.
Moreover, the statutes have never enabled an inclosure to be made against commoners entitled to estovers or turbary.
The profit of turbary is the right to cut turf or peat, usually in order to burn it.
The turbary cattle appear to have been a small variety of the Bos namadicus, somewhat dwarfed by drought and hardship.
It would be strange to my purpose to discuss the details of common of estovers, of turbary, or of fishery.

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