Then came the handful of decades of the rancheros, the Spanish and Mexican land-grant barons.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Oct. 2026
In the 13th century, as the Magna Carta encoded the rights of English barons, the Carta de Foresta laid out the rights of commoners to pasture cattle in the open places among the English forests.
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