Charta De Foresta - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Charta de foresta is taken from the roll of 25 Edward I., and has a confirmation of that date prefixed to it, similar to that prefixed to Magna Charta. This charter, though of infinite importance at the time it was made, contains i it nothing interesting to a modern lawyer, any further than as it gives some specimen of the nature of the institution of Forest Laws, and the burthens thereby brought on the subject. It contains 16 chapters, 1 Reeves, c. v. 254....
Forest
Forest [fr. foresta, Ital.], an incorporeal hereditament, being the right or franchise of keeping, for the purpose of venery and hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park, and warren (which means all animals pursued in field sports), in a certain teritory or precinct of woody ground and pasture set apart for the purpose, with laws and officers of its own, established for protection of the game, Manw. For. Laws.A tract of land, not necessarily wooded, reserved to king or a grantee, for hunting deer and other game, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 660.The Charta de Foresta, confirmed in Parliament, 9 Hen. 3, disafforested many forests unlawfully made. Some of the royal forests still exist, as the New Forest in Hampshire, and Windsor; they are now administered by the Commissioners of Crown Lands and Forestry Commission; see FORESTRY ACTS. A forest is, in general, a royal possession, though it is capable of being vested in a subject. A forest is a right which the owner ...
Chart-- libertatum
Chart-- libertatum are Magna Charta (see that title) and Charta de Foresta....
Purliue
Purliue [fr. poirallee, Fr.], land formerly added to an ancient forest by unlawful encroachment, and disafforested by the Charta de Foresta, 4 Inst. 303. See Williams on Rights of Common, p. 233; Manwood, c. 20....
Magna Carta et Carta de Foresta sont appelles les deux grandes chartres
Magna Carta et Carta de Foresta sont appelles les deux grandes chartres. 2 Inst. 570.-(Magna Charta and the Charta of the Forest are called the two great charters.) 'The two famous charters of English liberties, magna carta and carta de foresta' (4 Bl. Com. 423)....
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