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of Common for the other Commoners. Fortunately, 
however, within a few weeks after the inclosure 
which was the cause of this action, the Copyhold Act 
of 1887 was passed into law, a clause of which—as will 
be fully explained later—has practically made it im- 
possible for Lords of Manors to avail themselves in the 
future of such customs, with any chance of success. 
No similar inclosure is ever likely to take place 
hereafter, and Rowley Green, it may be confidently 
expected, will be safe from any further aggressions of 
this kind. Under these circumstances it did not seem 
to be worth while to incur the heavy costs of an appeal 
to the House of Lords, in respect of a matter which, 
important as it was before the Copyhold Act of 1887, 
was no longer a serious question, and which affected only 
the inclosure of a plot of land not exceeding half an 
acre in extent. 
The two cases, however, of Tollard Farnham and 
Rowley Green, decided as they were by Common Law 
Judges, confirmed the view which the Commons Society 
formed at the commencement of their proceedings, that 
such cases are far better dealt with by the Equity 
Judges, who do not seem to be so closely bound by 
technicalities, and who have a wider range of knowledge 
of the older law relating to Commons and Customs. 
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