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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat./or«te Wa/to.] In English law. The obstruction of a way or road, or the hindering a person or thing from passing. The besetting of a way by a tenant, in order to prevent his lessor from doming on the premises.

3 BL Com, 170.

The lying between a deer and the forest, in the way he was to return, so as to stop him from returning.

Crompt, Juried, 153.