{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inclosure-act-1845/section-118",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inclosure-act-1845/section-118.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/118",
  "legislation_title": "Inclosure Act 1845",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inclosure-act-1845",
  "path": "section/118",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "118",
  "heading": "Duties of field reeves.",
  "text": "The field reeve or reeves for the time being of every such regulated pasture shall, subject to such orders and instructions in writing as may from time to time be agreed on by the majority in value of the owners of such stints as aforesaid at their yearly meetings, regulate the times in each year during which stock or animals shall be admitted to and excluded from such regulated pasture, and shall maintain and keep in order the fences, gates, ditches, drains, watercourses, embankments, jetties and weirs, or make any new fences, gates, ditches, drains, watercourses, embankments, jetties, or weirs, and do all works necessary for the maintenance and improvement and good order of such regulated pasture, and shall and may distrain all stock and animals found thereon contrary to the regulations of such pasture, and do all other acts for the maintenance and improvement of such regulated pasture, and the convenient use and occupation thereof, as the field reeve or reeves, subject to such instructions as aforesaid, may think fit; and where there shall be any buildings on such regulated pasture, or where the majority in value of the owners of stints at any yearly meeting shall direct that any buildings for the shelter or stall-feeding of stock or animals be erected thereon, such field reeve or reeves shall or may maintain and keep in repair such buildings, or cause such buildings to be erected, in pursuance of such direction, and let the same from year to year, or, under such instructions as aforesaid, for any term of years, and shall receive the rents thereof; and such rents shall be applicable in the first place to the same purposes as the rates hereinafter authorized to be raised on the owners of stints are made applicable, and the residue (if any) shall be paid to the owners of stints, in proportion to the respective liability of their stints to such rates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/118/section/118",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:33:05.062339+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}