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hay privilege Hist.

• 1 in the Red River Settlement, the right enjoyed by settlers to cut hay on the untilled land lying to the rear of each river lot.

  • 1871  It was a question of hay privilege that was on the tapis[;] besides the old cry is a little stale.
  • 1935  At next day's meeting, O'Donoghue gave notice that he would introduce a bill providing that the hitherto prevailing two-mile hay privilege be converted into fee simple ownership. . . .
  • 1963  While settlers on the Red River had hay privileges, so far as is known these settlers of Grantown are the only people who had sugar privileges also.

• 2 in the Red River Settlement, the land to which this right applied.

  • 1952  The "hay privilege," though uncultivated, was an integral part of each farm.
  • 1963  When the survey team . . . started running their lines over the "hay privilege"--the land to the rear of the long river farms on which each farmer cut his hay--which belonged to André Nault, a group of métis . . . quickly appeared on the scene.