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Stable Stand

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Stable-stand, one of the four evidences or presumptions whereby a man is convicted to intend the stealing of the royal deer in the forest; and this is when a man is found at his standing in the forest, ready to shoot with a cross-bow bent at any deer, or with a long bow, or else standing close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip, Manwood, cap. 2, cap. 18.

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