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INCLOSURE, or ENCLOSURE

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 356 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INCLOSURE, or ENCLOSURE  , in law, the
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fencing in of waste or
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common lands by the lord of the
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manor for the purpose of cultivation . For the
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history of the inclosure of such lands, and the legislation, dating from 1235, which deals with it, see
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COMMONS . IN COENA DOMINI, a papal bull, so called from its opening words, formerly issued annually on
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Holy
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Thursday (in Holy Week), or later on
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Easter Monday . Its first publication was in 1363 . It was a statement of ecclesiastical censure against heresies, schisms,
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sacrilege, infringement of papal and ecclesiastical privileges, attacks on person and
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property, piracy, forgery and other crimes . For two or rpe
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hundred years it was varied from time to time, receiving its final form from Pope Urban VIII. in 1627 . Owing to the opposition of the sovereigns of
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Europe both
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Protestant and Catholic, who regarded the bull as an infringement of their rights, its publication was discontinued by Pope Clement XIV. in 1770 .

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