Forest Law
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
The chapters which forbade the King to increase the “farms” or fixed rents of the counties and hundreds, those which defined the King’s relations with the Jews, and those which restricted the lucrative rights derived from the rigorous enforcement of the forest laws, were discarded.
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The distinct body of law, separate from common law and canon law, governing the royal forests and the King's exclusive rights over game.
” It was the prevalence of this code which marked off the districts known as royal forests from all that lay extra forestam;
Before John’s time the forest code, as set forth in the Assize of Woodstock, had taken its place as a definite system of law, distinct from common law and canon law alike.
He had no intention to acquiesce in this, but it was not till 1184 that he attempted, by the Assize of Woodstock, to formulate the rules of the forest law.