Some articles on open fields, open field, field, fields:
... The open fields doctrine was first articulated by the U.S ... people in their ‘persons, houses, papers, and effects,’ is not extended to the open fields." This opinion appears to be decided on the basis that "open fields are not a "const ... Court held that a privacy expectation regarding an open field is unreasonable …open fields do not provide the setting for those intimate activities that the Amendment is intended to shelter from government ...
... These "parliamentary" enclosures consolidated strips in the open fields into more compact units, and enclosed much of the remaining pasture commons or wastes ... They also had to respect the open field system rights, when demanded, even when in practice the rights were not widely in use ... Without extinguishment, one man in an entire village could unilaterally impose the common field system, even if everyone else did not desire to continue the practice ...
... land but retains also a significant part of the mediaeval open field system ... Fields, divided into strips, are farmed in common among the landowners of the village ... Today, there are three open fields remaining the Mill Field, the South Field and the West Field ...
... The routes initially pass by farmland however, the open fields gradually give way to homes and businesses as the road approaches the hamlet of Savannah ... The open fields return 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the hamlet's center, and NY 89 heads north across a mixture of open fields and marshland for roughly 10 miles (16 km) to ...
Famous quotes containing the words fields and/or open:
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