Meaning of venville | Babel Free

Definitions

A system of tenure in Dartmoor, England, allowing residents to graze animals on the moor and to gather coal, turf, etc. from the forest.

historical, uncountable, usually

Examples

“[Dartmoor forest’s] boundaries being, in some parts, several miles from the cultivated country, the intervening tract being claimed as common land by the numerous parishes bordering it, which parishes are known as lying within Venville.”

“A custom of law particular to England's Dartmoor Forest, venville rights allowed for "certain rights of common"[.]”

CEFR level