free warren

noun

Definitions

  1. The legal right, granted by the crown of England, to own, maintain, and hunt on a piece…

    The legal right, granted by the crown of England, to own, maintain, and hunt on a piece of land set aside for the keeping and breeding of beasts of warren.

    • Grouse are not birds of warren ( 2 ); and trespass on a free warren will not lie for shooting them .
    • The defendant has pleaded a warren in gross: he does not make it appendant or appurtenant. He shews merely that Charles I. granted a free warren, as he might do.

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