Assart
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or ESSART. In English forest and ecclesiastical law. The offense of pulling up by the roots the woods that are thickets and coverts for the deer, and making them clear as arable land. Manw. For. Law, p.
2, e. 9, note 1; Cowell; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. pp. 486, 487, § 627.
Written, in the law Latin, dssartum, in Bracton and Pleta, and essartum, in the Charta de Foresta and the Black Book of the Exchequer.