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Chacea

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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Chasea.

L. Lat [from Fr. chasser, to drive.] In old English law. A chace, or chase; a driving, chasing or hunting [of animals;] (Lat. fugatio, acttts.) Spelman.

Reg. Orig. 268.

The road or way by which cattle are driven to pasture, odled also a drove, droveway or drift way, (Lat. actus, q. v.) Spelman. Bract, fol.

227 b, 232.

A station of game, or hunting ground, (Lat. fugacia;) an extent of ground less than a forest, and larger than a park, where wild animals are kept for the diversion of the chase, [saltus et ipsa static qua, venatkmis gratid, a Juntur ferm.) Spelman,

See Chase.