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Chacea

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A station for game, more extended than a park, less so than a forest; the liberty of hunting within such limits. Cowell. The driving or hunting animals; the way along which animals are driven. Spelman.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A chase.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In old English law. A station of game, more extended than a park, and less than a forest; also the liberty of chasing or hunting within a certain district; also the way through which cattle are driven to pasture, otherwise called a "droveway." Blount.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

cliasea, cliacia, chaicia, I. I, Chace, I. fr.

In old English law. A chace or chase; a driving or hunting of animals; a driving of animals to pasture; the right of so driving; the way by which they

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Inold English law. A station of game, more extended than a park, and less than a forest; also the liberty of chasing or hunting within a certain district; also the way through which cattle are driven to pasture, otherwise called a “drove-way.” Blount. Chacea est ad communem iegem. A chase is by common law. Reg. Brev. 806.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/., Chace,//-. A chase. Chalenger,/r., Challenge. To mand; to dispute. Challenge the whole panel of jurors. tion to a juror or jurors four kinds of this challenge: account of honor, as if a lord defectum, for defect, lack, of ter affectum, /or partiality some crime or misdemeanor his credit. These are all from peremptory challenges, criminal cases. They are also tion from challenges for ter affectum, as for acquaintance,

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Chasea. L. Lat [from Fr. chasser, to drive.] In old English law. A chace, or chase; a driving, chasing or hunting [of animals;] (Lat. fugatio, acttts.) Spelman. Reg. Orig. 268. The road or way by which cattle are driven to pasture, odled also a drove, droveway or drift way, (Lat. actus, q. v.) Spelman. Bract, fol. 227 b, 232. A station of game, or hunting ground, (Lat. fugacia;) an extent of ground less than a forest, and larger than a park, where wild animals are kept for the diversion of the chase, [saltus et ipsa static qua, venatkmis gratid, a Juntur ferm.) Spelman, See Chase.