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surcarca

surcarca [AN surcarke], (leg.) overstocking (of land with livestock), ‘surcharge’. 1221 querelas ‥ de nova dissaisina, purprestura, et surcarta [l. ~a] de tenementis ‥ in dicta villa Couch. Furness II 382 (cf. ib. 446: ~a); 1283 vj d. Willelmus de molendino in misericordia pro sorcarkia bidencium CourtR A. Stratton 77.

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