Fresh

[L. Lat. friecus; L. Fr. fresche; Lat. recens.] In old English law. Recent, or new. See Fresh disseisin. Fresh force. Without profit; a term applied in the old books to land. Celug que la terre tient issint charge, la lessest giser fresh, issint que home ne putt trover distress, dtc. He who holds the land so charged lets it lie^^^A, so that the party cannot find a distress. Stai. Oloucest. c.

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Land was said to lie fresh, not only when there was no cattle, or thing distrainable upon the land, of the value of the rent, or other profit behind, but also, though there was a sufficient distress to be taken, yet if the land were so enclosed about as that the lord could not come to take and carry away the distress to the pound, it was said to lie fresh, that is, without profit to the lord..

2 Inst. 296.