Woods
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A forest; land covered with a large and thick collection of natural forest trees. The old books say that a grant of "all his woods" (omnes boscos suos) will pass the land, as well as the trees growing upon it. Co. Litt. 4b. See Averitt v. Murrell, 49 N. C. 323; Hall v. Cranford, 50 N. C. 3; Achenbach v. Johnston, 84 N. C. 264.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
An old field "turned out," without fencing around it, and which had grown up in broom-sedge and pine bushes, surrounded by forest land, was held to be " woods," within the meaning of N. C. Rev. Code, ch. 16, § 1; so that one settmg fire to such a field was liable to the penalty imposed. Hall v. Cranfordf 5 Jones L. 3.