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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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Scheiber also traces the origins of the enclosure movement that eventually led to the establishment of the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Inter-Allied Conflicts and Ocean Law, 1945-53: The Occupation ... by Smith, Roger / Pacific Affairs
One disquieting aspect of the book is the notion that there was some kind of `Golden Era' in the world prior to the rise of capitalism, in which communities did really care about their fellow members, as in the period prior to the enclosure movement in England.
All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism by Ward, Jim / Community Action
Their methods were not inherently sustainable and the movement can as easily be seen to mark the arrival of the high input industrial agriculture of the twentieth century as the continuation of an ecological golden age of traditional institutions (whose relatively recent origins in the turmoil of the enclosure movement Winter chooses not to discuss).
Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment by Hamlin, Christopher / Journal of Social History
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