Fossatum
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from fossa, q. v.] In old English law. A dyke; a bank of earth thrown up out of a ditch. Glanv. lib.
13, c. 34.
Bract. fol.
116. Stat. Westm. 2, c. 46.
A ditch or trench. The same with fossa.
Spelman. Reg. Orig. 92 b, 198 b, 199.
A moat or fosse around an encampment or fortified place.
Spelman.
A canal or cut from a river.
Cowell.
Cart. 20 Hen. III. cited ibid. A place fenced with a ditch.
Cowell.