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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The statute 9 Geo. I. c.

22, so called because it was occasioned by the outrages committed by persons with their faces blacked or otherwise disguised, who appeared in Epping Forest, near Waltham, in Essex, and destroyed the deer there, and committed other offenses.

Repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 27.