a. [f. COMMON v. 9 + -ABLE.]
1. Of animals: That may be pastured on common land.
1620. J. Wilkinson, Of Courts Baron, 147. If any tenant doth surcharge the common … by putting of cattel there not commonable, as pigs, goats, and geese.
1767. Blackstone, Comm., II. 33. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plough, or such as manure the ground.
1876. Digby, Real Prop., iii. 163. A right of common of pasture for all commonable cattle levant and couchant upon the lands.
2. Of land: That is or may be held in common; subject to a right of common; suitable for or pertaining to commoning (see COMMON v. 9).
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 60. The Third sort … lieth deep and long drowned … onely two or three months in summer it is commonable.
1796. W. Marshall, W. England, II. 134. It was once the prevailing practice of Devonshire, to cultivate its commonable lands.
1832. Austin, Jurispr. (1879), II. xlix. 841. Putting his cattle on the commonable land.
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. xxviii. 670. To sustain himself and his family from the produce of his own land, and from his commonable rights.
