Forest
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A certain territory of wooded ground and fruitful pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, and warren, to rest and abide in the safe protection of the prince for his princely delight and pleasure, having a peculiar court and officers. Manw. For. Laws, c.
1, No. 1; Termes de la Ley; 1 Bl. Comm. 289.
A royal hunting ground which lost its peculiar character with the extinction of its courts, or when a franchise passed into the hands of a subject. Spelman; Cowell; Manw. For. Laws, c.
1; 2 Bl. Comm. 83.