Arbor
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. A tree; a tree growing, as distinguished from lignum, dead wood, or wood cut. Arbor dum crescit, lignum cum crescere nescit; [That which is] a tree while it grows, [is] wood when it ceases to grow.
Cro. Jac. 166. Hob. 77 b, in marg.
Arbor finalis; a tree used for marking a boundary line. Bract. fol.
167, 207 b.