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Woods and forests. A Government Department which managed the Crown Lands and collected all the Land Revenue of the Crown which goes to the public account. The Department was presided over by two Commissioners, to whom the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries was added as a third Commissioner, ex officio, by the Crown Lands Act, 1906; by Order in Council [S.R. & O. 1924 (No. 1370)] the name of the Commissioners was altered to Commissioners of Crown Lands. See CROWN LANDS; AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, MINISTRY OF....
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 ...
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)]...
Vastum forest' vel bosci
Vastum forest' vel bosci, that part of a forest or wood wherein the trees and underwood were so destroyed that it lay, in a manner, waste, Parpch. Antiq. 351....
Wood-geld
Wood-geld, or Pudzeld, is to be free from payment of money for taking of wood in any forest, Co. Litt. 233 a....
Wood-plea Court
Wood-plea Court, a Court held twice in the year in the forest of Clun, in Shropshire, for determining all matters of wood and agistments....
Forest
An extensive wood a large tract of land covered with trees in the United States a wood of native growth or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated...
Commissioners of Crown Lands
Commissioners of Crown Lands, the name of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, see the (English) Forestry (Transfer of Woods) Act, 1923, and Order in Council, 1924, S.R.O., 1924 (No. 1370). The Commissioners were incorporated by the (English) Crown Lands Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 231); their powers and duties are provided for by this Act. The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries is an ex-officio Commissioner (6 Edw. 7, c. 28)....
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...
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