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Keeper

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

One who has the care, custody or superintendence of anything.

67 111. 590.

KEEPER OF THE FOREST (called, also, the "chief warden of the forest"). An officer who had the principal government over all officers within the forest, and warned them to appear at the court of justice seat on a summons from the lord chief justice in eyre. Manw. For. Law, pt.

1, p. 156; Jacob.