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—that is, at large. These are commons granted to individuals and their heirs by deed, or claimed by prescription as by a parson or corporation.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.