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Definition of Disafforesting

Disafforesting
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.

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- 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...
- re****erted boundaries for encroachment. The programme's focus was disafforestation and sale of forest lands for conversion to pasture and arable farming...
- adjoining unto the forest [which] was once forest-land and afterwards disafforested by the perambulations made for the severing of the new forests from...
- Gloucestershire in response to disafforestation of royal forests, sale of royal lands and enclosure of property by the new owners. Disafforestation is a change in legal...
- 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...
- 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...
- commons when the forests were divided and enclosed. The majority of the disafforestation took place between 1629 and 1640, during Charles I of England's Personal...
- of the forest area. Parliamentary enclosure of the bailiwicks and disafforestation of Rockingham bailiwick in 1832 resulted in a much smaller forest area...
- 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...
- c. 63) Oxford University Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 81) Whichwood Disafforesting Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 36) Masters and Workmen Arbitration Act 1824...