Wild places & wild people: a short history of common land
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What Sort of People Would Have Been Allowed to Go Into the Waste and Extract Resources in the Manna?
The rules that control how you use the common, I mean, there are two main sort of questions that come up when you immediately have the idea of common rights. One is how much produce can you take, and the other is who has the rights to take it. There's no specific numerical limitation on the number of animals you can put out. The rule is that you could only put out onto the common in the summer as many animals as you can keep on your farm across the winter.
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