Forest Law
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
A system of law anciently established in England, for the government of the royal forests, and admmistered by courts and officers of its own. That it existed before the Norman conquest appears from the laws or constitutions of Canute, which have been preserved; but it was first established with all its oppressive peculiarities by the princes of the Norman line. Spelman, voc.
Foresta, 2 Steph. Com. 18.
Its seventies and abuses were mitigated by the Carta de Foresta, 9 Hen.