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

Black's Law Dictionary

In forest law. One of the four evidences or presumptions whereby a man was convicted of an intent to steal the king's deer in the forest This was when a man was found at his standing in the forest with a cross-bow or long-bow bent, ready to shoot at any deer or else standing close by a tree with grey-hounds in a leash, ready to slip. Cowell; Manwood.