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

Black's Law Dictionary

In English law

A tract of inclosed ground privileged for keeping wlld beasts of the chase, particularly deer; an inclosed chase extending only over a man's own grounds.

2 Bl. Comm. 38.

In American law

An inclosed pleasure-ground in or near a city, set apart for the recreation of the public.

Riverside v. MacLain, 210 Ili. 308, 71 N. E. 408, 66 L. R. A. 288, 102 Am. St. Rep. 164; Pcople . Green, 52 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 440; Archer v. Salinas City, 93 Cal. 43, 28 Pan. 839, 16 L R. A. 145; Ehmen v. Gothenburg, 50 Neb. 715, 70 N. W. 237.