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Whitehart Silver

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A mulct on certain lands in or near to the forest of Whitehart, paid into the exchequer, imposed by Henry III. upon Thomas de la Linda for killing a ■ beautiful white hart which that king before had spared in hunting.

Camd. Brit. 150.

WHITTANWARII (Law Lat.) In old English law. A class of offenders who whitened stolen oxhides and horsehides so that they could not be known and identified.

Barr. Obs. St. 124, note (f).