Defensum
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat.
In old English law
An enclosure, or any fenced ground.
2 Mon, AngL 114. 3 Id. 306.
Inclusum etpositum in defensum; enclosed and put in deifence or fence. Bract, fol.
228.
A part of an open field, appropriated to a particular use, as for hay, which was hence said to be in defenso. Cowell, A state of several occupancy or appropriation. Magna Charia, c.
16.
Defence, in the old sense of prohibition; a state of prohibition, or in which the use of a thing is prohibited by law.
Stat. Westm. 2, c. 47.
See In defenso,