Fence
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A structure or erection between two contiguous estates, so as to divide them, or on the same estate, so as to divide one part from another. In Scotch Law. To hedge in or protect by certain forms. To fence a court, to open in due form. Pitc. Crim. Law, pt.
1, p. 75.