Forest
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A certain territory of wooded ground and fruitful pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, and pleasure, having a peculiar court and officers. Man. For. Laws, cap.
1, num. 1; Termes de la Ley; 1 Bla. Com. 289.
A royal hunting-ground which lost its peculiar character with the extinction of its courts or when the franclilse passed into the hands of a subject. Spelman, Gloss.; Cowell; Man. For. Laws, cap.
1; 2 Bla. Com. 83; 1 Steph. Com. 665.