Forest
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In old English law
A cern territory of wooded ground and fruitful tures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, and warren, to rest and abide in the safe protection of tle prince for his "princely delight and pleasure, having a pecul- Jar court and officers. Manw. For. Laws, c.
1,no. 1; Termes dela Ley; 1 BI]. Comm. 289.
A royal hunting-ground which lost its peculiar character with the extinction of its courts, or When the franchise passed into the hands of a subject. Spelman; Cowell. The word ig also used to signify a franchise orright, being the right of keeping, for the purpose of hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park, and warren, in a territory or precinct of woody ground or pasture setapart for the purpose.
1 Steph. Comm. _ 665.