A treatise of the laws of the forest, wherein is declared not onely those laws, as they are now in force, but also the original and beginning of forests; and what a forest is in its own proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such things as are incident or belonging thereunto, with the several proper terms of art. Also a treatise of the pourallee, declaring what pourallee is, how the same first began, what a pourallee-man may do, ... together with the limits and bounds, as well of the forest, as the pourallee. Collected, as well out of the common laws and statutes of this land; as also out of sundry learned ancient authors, and out of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster: by John Manwood. Whereunto are added the statutes of the forest; a treatise of the several offices of verderors, ... and certain principal cases, judgments, and entries of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster. Never heretofore printed for the publique.

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• A treatise of the laws of the forest, wherein is declared not onely those laws, as they are now in force, but also the original and beginning of forests; and what a forest is in its own proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such things as are incident or belonging thereunto, with the several proper terms of art. Also a treatise of the pourallee, declaring what pourallee is, how the same first began, what a pourallee-man may do, ... together with the limits and bounds, as well of the forest, as the pourallee. Collected, as well out of the common laws and statutes of this land; as also out of sundry learned ancient authors, and out of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster: by John Manwood. Whereunto are added the statutes of the forest; a treatise of the several offices of verderors, ... and certain principal cases, judgments, and entries of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster. Never heretofore printed for the publique.
• Treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest
• Treatise of the forest laws

People / Organizations

• John Manwood (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for the Company of Stationers, 1665.

Publication year

1665-1665

ESTC No.

R235229

Grub Street ID

106384

Description

[30], 552 p. ; 4⁰

Note

First published 1598 under title: A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest.

"The edit. 1598, consists but of 20 chapters, those of 1615 and 1665, of 25, being differently paged, and to which latter also are prefixed the charter of Chanute, and statutes relating to the forest." Cf. J. Clarke. Bibliotheca legum.

Title page is a2.

With marginal notes.