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14. What is a 'forest'? Various definitions may be now set out:---
In Words and Phrases Legally Defined 'forest' means:
"A certain territories of woody grounds and fruitful pastures, privileged for wild beasts and foules of forest, chase and warren, to rest and abide in, in the safe protection of the King, for his princely delight and pleasure, which territory of ground, so privileged, is meered and bounded with unremovable marks, meeres, and boundaries, either known by matter of record or else by prescription, and also replenished with wild beasts of venerie or chase, and with great coverts of vert (i.e. green-leaved trees, bushes, etc.) for the succour of the said wilde beasts, to have their abode in; for the preservation and continuance of which said place, together with the vert and venison, there are certain particular laws, privileges, and officers belonging to the same, meet for that purpose, that are only proper unto a forest, and not to any other place."
According to Mozley and Whiteley's Law Dictionary, 'forest' as a legal right is defined as a right of keeping, for the purpose of hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park, and warren, in a territory or precinct of woody ground of pasture set apart for the purpose.
According to Black Law Dictionary, 'forest' means a tract of land covered with trees and one usually of considerable extent.
The World of the knowledge Encyclopaedia Vol. 10 defines 'forest' at page 2201 as 'a circuit of wooded ground and pastures, known in its bounds and privileged for the abiding of wild beasts and fouls of forest, chase and carron to be under the king's protection for his princely delight'. Under the Abridged Glossary of Technical Terms published by Forest Research Institute and Colleges Dehra Dun, Page 52, the term 'forest' was understood as an area set side for the production of timber and other forest produce, or maintained under woody vegetation for certain indirect benefits which it provided. For example, climatic or protective.