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enclosure
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enclosure (inclosure) n. land bounded by a fence, wall, hedge, ditch or other physical evidence of boundary. Unfortunately, too often these creations are not included among the actual legally-described boundaries and cause legal problems.

enclosure noun arena, barrier, blockade, border, boundary, bracket, cincture, circle, circumjacence, circumvallation, confine, confinement, container, custody, edge, embrace, encasement, encirclement, enclosed space, encompassment, enfoldment, fence, fenced in area, girdle, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, insertion, limit, limitation, perimeter, pound, receptacle, restriction, trammel, walled in area, wrapper, zone
See also: barrier, boundary, chamber, close, constraint, coverage, curtilage, imprisonment, parcel, scope

ENCLOSURE. An artificial fence put around one's estate. Vide Close.
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00 Hardcover T58 According to the author, an oppositional discourse has emerged within the fields of law and public policy, concerning the privatization, or "enclosure," of ideas--analogous to the land enclosure movement in 16th century England--and the expansion of intellectual property rights, resulting in the "fencing off" of the intellectual commons.
Standardization and digital enclosure; the privatization of ... by SciTech Book News
41) The crystallization of these norms in WTO jurisprudence has led to what one scholar calls "the international enclosure movement," in which the erection of legal pillars on immutable trade norms and principles within a global civilization is driven by economic and corporate forces with less emphasis on protection of public goods and social policy in developing countries.
Food safety, South-North asymmetries, and the clash of regulatory ... by Aginam, Obijiofor / Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Distributists have sometimes pointed to the enclosure movement as an important example of large landowners' use of state power to dispossess others of their property and rights and thereby to contribute to this unhappy outcome.
Chesterton and Belloc: a critique by Epstein, Marcus; Block, Walter; Woods, Thomas E., Jr. / Independent Review
 
 
 
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