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Definition of Disafforested

Disafforested
Disafforest Dis`af*for"est, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disafforested; p. pr. & vb. n. Disafforesting.] [Pref. dis- + afforest: cf. OF. desaforester.] (Eng. Law) To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. --Blackstone.
Disafforest
Disafforest Dis`af*for"est, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disafforested; p. pr. & vb. n. Disafforesting.] [Pref. dis- + afforest: cf. OF. desaforester.] (Eng. Law) To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. --Blackstone.

Meaning of Disafforested from wikipedia

- have killed the deer, even though he was not found hunting or chasing. Disafforested lands on the edge of the forest were known as purlieus; agriculture...
- disputes with landowners resulted in clarifications that any land that was disafforested had to be in proportion to the quality of the land as a whole, so that...
- re****erted boundaries for encroachment. The programme's focus was disafforestation and sale of forest lands for conversion to pasture and arable farming...
- remaining forest in the 17th century, and the forest was not formally disafforested, or removed from forest law, until 1812. The modern Delamere Forest...
- adjoining unto the forest [which] was once forest-land and afterwards disafforested by the perambulations made for the severing of the new forests from...
- Skipwith. The Corporation of Leicester opposed the efforts of Charles I to disafforest the nearby Leicester Forest, believing them to be likely to throw many...
- quite reduced by the time it was disafforested during the reign of King Charles I in 1629. The process of disafforestation created considerable social unrest...
- Forest of Es**** was a little higher. Over time parts of the country were disafforested, removed from Forest Law. In 1204 the men of Es**** paid the King 500...
- Pope's backing to re****ert forest law over large areas which had been "disafforested". Both Edward and the Pope were accused by some contemporary chroniclers...
- royal forest lands. 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of the Forest of Dean was disafforested in the 1620s, causing a series of riots in 1631–32; this was part of...