Woods
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
An old field "turned out," without fencing around it, and which had grown up in broom-sedge and pine bushes, surrounded by forest land, was held to be " woods," within the meaning of N. C. Rev. Code, ch. 16, § 1; so that one settmg fire to such a field was liable to the penalty imposed.
Hall v. Cranfordf 5 Jones L. 3.