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Stable Stand

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In forest law. One of the four evidences or presumptions whereby a man was convicted of an intent to steal the king's deer in the forest. This was when a man was found at his standing in the forest with a cross-bow or long-bow bent, ready to shoot at any deer, or else standing close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash, ready to slip.

Cowell.

STABULARII (Lat. pi. of stabularius). In the civil law. Stable keepers; hostlers; qui stabulum exercent.

Dig. 4. 9. 1. 5; Story, Bailm. §464.