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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 ...
Forest land
Forest land, without evidence to show that forest land had been cleared and prepared or earmarked for agricultural purposes, it must be treated as prima facie non-agricultural land, Controller of Estate Duty v. V. Venugopala Varma Rajah, AIR 1977 SC 121: (1976) 4 SCC 3: (1977) 1 SCR 346.The term 'forest land', occurring in s. 2, will not only include 'forest' as understood in the dictionary sense, but also any area recorded as forest in the Government record irrespective of the ownership, T.N. Godavarman v. Union of India, AIR 1997 SC 1228 (1230). [Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, s. 2]See also W.L. Wadhera v. Union of India, (2002) 9 SCC 108: AIR 2002 SC 1913.The expression 'forest land' should be given an extended meaning to cover a track of land covered with trees, shrubs, vegetation and undergrowth under mingled with trees with pastures, be it of natural growth or man made forestation. Samatha v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1997 SC 3297 (3380). [Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, s....
Forest Courts
Forest Courts, fallen into absolute desuetude. They were instituted for the government of the royal forests in different parts of the kingdom, and for the punishment of all injuries done to the deer or venison, to the vert or greensward, and to the covert in which such deer were lodged. They consisted of the Courts of attachments, regard, sweinmote, and justice-seat. The Court of attachments, woodmote, or forty days' Court, was held before the verderers of the forest once in every forty days, to inquire into all offences against vert and venison. The Court of regard, or survey of dogs, held every third year, for the expeditation of mastiffs. The Court of sweinmote, held before the verderers thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury. It inquired into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forest, and tied presentments certified from the Court of attachments against offences in vert and venison. The Court of justice-seat...
Forest-produce
Forest-produce, means:(a) the following whether found in, or brought from, a forest or not, that is to say--timber charcoal, caoutchouc, catechu, wood-oil, resin, natural varnish, bark, lac, mahuaflowers, mahua seeds, kuth and myrabolams, and(b) the following when found in, or brought from a forest, that is to say--(i) trees and leaves, flowers and fruits, and all other parts or produce not hereinbefore mentioned, of trees,(ii) plants not being trees (including grass, creepers, reeds and moss), and all parts or produce of such plants,(iii) wild animals and skins, tusks, horns, bones, silk, cocoons, honey and wax, and all other parts or produce of animals, and(iv) peat, surface soil, rock and mineral (including lime-stone, laterite, mineral oils, and all products of mines or quarries). [Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927), s. 2 (4)]...
Reserved forests
Reserved forests, 'reserve forests' are those areas of forest land which are constituted as 'reserve forests' under Ch. II of the Act, Union of India v. Abdul Jalil, AIR 1965 SC 147: (1964) 8 SCR 158....
Dean, forest of
Dean, forest of. An ancient royal forest in the county of Gloucester. As to the mines therein, see 1 & 2 Vict. c. 43, and 24 & 25 Vict. c. 40. See Nicholls' Forest of Dean....
Drifts of the forest
Drifts of the forest [agitatio animalium in foresta, Lat.], a view or examination of what cattle are in a forest, chase, etc., that it may be known whether it be surcharged or not; and whose the beasts are, and whether they are commonable. These drifts are made at certain times in the year by the officers of the forest; when all cattle are driven into some pound or place enclosed for the before-mentioned purposes, and also to discover whether any cattle of strangers be there, which ought not to common, Manwood, p. 2, c. xv....
Forest officer
Forest officer, means any person whom the State Government or any office empowered by the State Government in this behalf, may appoint to carry out all or any of the purposes of this Act or to do anything required by this Act or any rule made thereunder to be done by a Forest-officer. [Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927), s. 2 (2); Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, s. 2(12A)]...
Private forest
Private forest, the minimum area required for the purpose of growing firewood trees for fuel in the factories and smoke-houses as well as for supply to the employees of the estates for their domestic use is excluded from the definition of the term 'private forest', Pioneer Rubber Plantations v. State of Kerala, (1992) 4 SCC 175: AIR 1993 SC 192 (195). [Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971, s. 2(f)(1)(i) (B)]...
Regard of the forest
Regard of the forest, the oversight or inspection of it, or the office and province of the regarder, who is to go through the whole forest, and every bailiwick in it, before the holding of the sessions of the forest, or justice-seat, to see and inquire after trespassers, and for the survey of dogs, Manw....
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