Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1906-08-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

VILLAGE GREENS. light. The initerfe.re:nce must, however, b e subTecrrorestricloen, I looked up, while groat beads stentlal amid not merely trivial. I will deal f perspiration rolled off my face en, to stone -- with rights to light ill a, week or two. tgs. Nearer and nearer it came, till my IL-nieee , Imbled, and I could have fallen but for the OEIB of the most interesting featu.res of many Trustee (J. W. Derlington).—The answer to ing arm of my employer, whose eyes were English villages is the village green, upon which your question depends entirely onthetrusace's I steadily on the approaching man. Almost the children of the village are accuetomed to powers. Ido not think they can compel you ;a1 touching distance he raid his head, and play, and in which, as a rule, is situ:at"' the to give them an account, nor can they force a le first time I saw his face. My God! can village pond. These greens are, I think, more sale unless the document under which they act • forget the sensation as I gazed on the common in the South than in the North of gives them power to do so. face of the robber and a:wiseiri in that England, but they are everywhere subject to Landlord and T t (Coast: t Reader, Mid_ ebe.eated annereon? It was tha junior the same ceeelitior_s so far as the law is cone, who had stained his hands with the corned. They are intimately connected with crle°6l372l.gh)*-9. •. have ,a land.l°. rid claim arrears ra relit t 1 at nave Douai owing ten years? a fellew creature and had come in the cornmeal lands, and in some c.ases are really a --Ans. : takes the tenancy is by deed he i.ght to take away his ' en gaine. part of the common lands of the village. They a,. ica do so The rent would be hauled alter i.,is lantern on the g ,he speedily are, however, somewhat different, in that the em . . six years. k with a small crowbar. TT.N eased rights over the village green are often very diffier of a huge stone slab that formed cult to prove. If the rights can be proved they Loan Interest (Monkey. Seouthport).—Haaing loaning; placing his hands beneath are secure, and cannot be interfered with by regard to the security extorted the rate of indit on one side, and commenced anyone, except by Act of Parliament. tercet is ridiculously excessive. You could most oertainly got relief if you tried to do so. with the plunder Craning over \lt one savage blow with a i lfe • - Now the villaFe green, properly ea called, is Landlord and Tenant (Wanderer, Birkaale).-a groan upon winch the inhabitants of the village and a cry of ageny, then all was If you. have left the house deserted and con' or parish have the right to reereatica. This sequently through want of cape damage has right to play games upon the village green is been caused, there can be no doubt that you 'ervd my 64:cnsell I-- W 26 clearly recognised by law, and can be enforced. a letter to the erstwhile are liable to be called upon to make good the ,1" ' cover of a revolver,' wricte It is a, caw in which the law enforces custom, if damaae. tf a. proved. Even in the reign of Charles 11. the I,.+Pebncikl on a 611116 °l3 Per courts decided that a custom "for all the in- n "" cr --habitants of a village to dance on a village to the murder of John green at all times of the yea,r at their free will