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Boscus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [Ital. bosco, Flem. bosc, from Gr. ^daxe^y, to feed; Fr. bois,] In old English law. Wood generally; all manner of wood.

Co, Litt. 4 b. Reg, Orig, 1 h, 2.

Magna Charia, c.

21. 2 Inst, 36. Wood growing; a wood, {sylva,) Towns, PI, 23, 51, 195.

Stat, Merton, c.

4.

It was divided into high wood, (Fr. haulbois,) or timber, (L. Lat. mceremium, saltus); and underwood or coppice, {sub-boscus; Fr. sub'bois,) Spelman, voc.

Boscagium. Cowell. Blount,