disafforest
Britishverb
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English law to reduce (land) from the status of a forest to the state of ordinary ground
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to remove forests from (land)
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In order to execute the lesser charter, it was requisite, by new perambulations, to set bounds to the royal forests, and to disafforest all land which former encroachments had comprehended within their limits.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. by David Hume
Lindsay therefore wrote to the king to try to "disafforest" the lands which were contiguous to the monastery, and he effected his object by payment of 1320 marks.
From A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents by George S. (George Searle) Phillips
Disforest, dis-for′est, v.t. to strip of trees: to disafforest.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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