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

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