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Game

and 1st October; for black game (except in the county of Somerset or Devon, or in the New Forest in the county of Southampton), between 10th December and 20th August; or in the county of Somerset or

Eyre, justices in

appointment by the statute of nisi prius, 13 Edw. 1, st. 1, c. 30. The eyre of the forest is nothing but the justice-seat, which is, or should by ancient custom be, held every three years by

Free-board, or freebord

a width determined by local custom, varying in different places, lying outside the fence of a manor, park, forest, or other estate, or sometimes, but less accurately, as the mere right of claiming the use of such

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Bow-bearer

Bow-bearer, an under-officer of the forest whose duty it was to oversee and true inquisition make, as well of sworn men as unsworn, in

Bloody hand

A hand stained with the blood of a deer which in the old forest laws of England was sufficient evidence of a mans trespass in the forest against venison

Disafforest

To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground to exempt from forest laws

Nemophilist

One who is fond of forest or forest scenery a haunter of the woods

Afforest

Afforest, to turn ground into a forest, Carta de Foresta, c. 1. See (English) Forestry Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 58), and

Agistment

called 'tacks') for rent is imposed by s. 35 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923. See also Manwood's Forest Laws, cc. 11-80, where to 'agist' is to take in and feed strangers' cattle in the Royal Forest

Purlieu

Originally the ground near a royal forest which having been unlawfully added to the forest was afterwards severed from it and disafforested so as to

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