from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SANS NOMBRE. This is a French phrase, which signifies without number.
2. In England it is used in relation to the right of putting animals on
a common. The term common sans nombre does not mean that the beasts are to
be innumerable, but only indefinite, not certain; Willes, 227; but they are
limited to the commoner's own commonable cattle, levant et couchant, upon
his lands, or as many cattle as the land of the commoner can keep and
maintain in winter. 2 Brownl. 101; Vent. 54; 5 T. R. 48; 1 Saund. 28, n. 4.