Fence
A fence differs from a wall up not having a solid foundation along its whole length. Alternatives to fencing include a ditch. Servitudes are legal arrangements of land use arising out of private agreements. Under feudalism most lands in England were cultivated in common fields, where peasants were allocated strips of arable land that were wont to support the requirements of the local village or manor. By the sixteenth century, the expansion of population and prosperity provided incentives for landowners to use their land in additional profitable ways. Many fields were aggregated and closed by large farmers either through negotiation among one another or by lease from the owner to maximize productivity. Fences repair service redefined the means by which land is employed leading to the fashionable law of servitudes. In the US the earliest settlers claimed land by simply fencing it in. Later because the American government formed unsettled land became technically owned by the govt. ...