What Is Sting?

Each villager is asigned a measure of their rights, so the right to graze three cows on the common, for example. Cows still dominant in forty six per cent of common land by ninet 58. But once you defined what a stint was, well it became a measurable commodity. As a measurable, definable thing, it was therefore tradable. So people from outside the community, or indeed within it, might buy up stints and before you knew it, i can't graze my cow any more.