The Preservation of Open Spaces, and of Footpaths, and Other Rights of Way

Preface; List of cases; List of statutes; Table of abbreviations; Part I. Of Commons and Other Open Spaces: 1. Of the nature of a common and the rights thereon; 2. Of the inclosure of a manorial common by the Lord of the Manor; 3. Of rights of common connected with the manorial system; 4. Of rights of common not connected with the manorial system; 5. Of common of estovers and common of turbary; 6. Of rights of digging gravel and other species of sub-soil; 7. Of rights of sole vesture and sole pasture; 8. Of claims by the inhabitants of a district to enjoy rights on a common; 9. Of the mode of ascertaining common rights, and of the loss or extinguishment thereof; 10. Of the power of local authorities to prevent inclosures by the Lord of the Manor; 11. Of the inclosure of a manorial common by way of copyhold grant; 12. Of the disfigurement of a manorial common; and herein, of the powers of highway authorities; 13. Of the inclosure of a manorial common by the authority of parliament; 14. Of common fields, meadows, and pastures; 15. Of the waste and commonable lands of a forest; 16. Of village greens; 17. Of fuel allotments and recreation grounds; 18. Of exceptional provisions as to inclosure; 19. Of the appropriation of common lands for the purposes of industrial undertakings; 20. Of the regulation of commons as open spaces. I. Under the Metropolitan Commons Act; 21. Of the regulation of commons as open spaces. II. Under the Commons Act, 1876; Part II. Of Footpaths and Other Rights of Way: 1. Of the nature of a footpath; 2. Of the obstruction of footpaths; and, herein, of their dedication; 3. Of the remedies for the obstruction of footpaths; 4. Of the stoppage or diversion of a footpath by an order of Quarter Sessions; 5. Of the repair of footpath; 6. Of highways of an exceptional kind; 7. Of roadside waste; 8. Of fore-shore and cliffs; 9. Of rivers and lake; Appendices; Index.