Vert

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Everything bearing green leaves in a forest. Bac. Abr. "Courts of the Forest;" Manw. For. Law, 146.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Green; green growth.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Everything bearing green leaves in a forest. Manwood, For. Law 146.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Everything bearing green leaves in a forest. Also that power which a man has, by royal grant, to cut green wood in a forest. Also, in heraldry, green color, called "venus" in the arms of princes, and "emerald" in those of peers, and expressed in engravings by iines in bend. Wharton.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In forest law, everything that grows and bears green leaf within the forest, that may cover a deer.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Anything that and bears a green leaf in i. forest; cover. Vest To clothe with possession; to ed use, legacy, or estate is when son in whom the right resides. an estate actually takes effect as a mainder: V. Remainder. Vesting cery in trust cases vesting the legal V eater, fr., Vestire, I. To clothe;

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Any thing that doth grow and bear a green leaf within the forest. It is divided into over vert and nether vert. Over vert is the great woods, and nether vert is the underwoods. There is also a vert called special vert, which includes all feed the deer. Special vert was so called because the destroying of it was more grievously punished than that of any other vert. Termes de la Ley; Cowel.