Forest Courts
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
Courts instituted for the government of the king's forests in different parts of the kingdom, ^nd for the punishment of all injuries done to the king's deer or venison, to the vert or greensward, and to the covert in which the deer were lodged. They comprised the courts of attachments, of regard, of swein mote, and of justice seat; but since the revolution of 1688, these courts, it is said, have gone into absolute desuetude.
3 Steph. Comm. 439-441; 3 Bl. Comm. 71-74. But see 8 Q. B. 981.