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Forest courts

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In English law

Courts in-stifuted for the government of the king's forest in different parts of the kingdom, and for the punishment of all injuries done td the king's deer or venison, to the vert or greensward, and to the covert in which such deer were lodged. They consisted of the courts of attachments, of regard, of sweinmote, and of justice-seat; but in later times these couris are no longer held.

3 Bl. Comm. 71.