Vert [fr. verd, Fr.; viridis, Lat.], otherwise called greenhue, everything that bears a green leaf within a forest that may cover a deer; but especially great and thick coverts. 'Vert, venison and inclosure' were three of the requisites of an ancient legal park; see Pease v. Courtney, (1904) 2 Ch 509, per Swinfen Eady, J.
Manwood (part 2, p. 33) divides vert into overt-vert and nether-vert-the overt-vert is that which is termed haut-boys, and nether-vert, sub-boys-and into special vert, which is all trees growing within the forest that bear fruit to feed deer, because the destroying of it is more grievously punished than the destroying of any other vert. See 3 Steph. Com. And see per Bacon, V.-C., in Earl De la Warr v. Miles, (1881) 17 Ch D 570.
Also that power which a man has, by royal grant, to cut green-wood in a forest.
Also green colour, called Venus in the arms of princes, and Emerald in those of peers, and expressed in engravings by lines in bend, Heraldic term.