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▪ I. assart, v. Law.|əˈsɑːt|
Also 6–7 assert.
[a. AF. assarter, -ier, -ir (Britton), OF. essarter:—late L. exsartāre, exartāre (in Burgundian Laws), f. ex out + *sartāre, freq. of sar(r)īre, ppl. stem sarrīt-, sarīt-, sart- (in derivatives, sartio, sartūra, etc.) to hoe, weed. There was an Eng. Law L. assartāre, f. AFr.]
To grub up trees and bushes from forest-land, so as to make it arable. Also absol.
[1276Act 4 Edw. I, i. §4 De parcis et dominicis boscis quæ dominus ad voluntatem suam poterit assartare et excolere. (For transl. see 1876.)] 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 4 b, Demeyne woode..whiche at the lordes wyll may be asserted and plucked vp. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest ix. §i. (1615) 67/1 Whereas woods or thickets or any other land is assarted, that land cannot grow againe to become couerts. 1723Ashmole Antiq. Berks. II. 425 The King granted to him..Power to assart his Lands. 1837Howitt Rur. Life v. i. (1862) 362 That none shall assart in the forest without being taken before the verderer. 1876Digby Real Prop. iv. §i. 180 Parks and demesne woods which the lord may assart and improve at his pleasure.
▪ II. assart, n. Law.|əˈsɑːt|
[a. AF. assart, OF. essart:—late L. exartum = *exsartum, pa. pple. (sc. arvum land) of *exsar(r)īre, f. ex out + sar(r)īre to hoe, weed: see prec. The n. might also have been formed in Fr. directly on the vb. (cf. regarder, regard), whence probably sense 2 arose. See also essart, after Fr., used by modern historians.]
1. A piece of forest land converted into arable by grubbing up the trees and brushwood; a clearing in a forest.
1628Coke On Litt. 10 a, If an assart bee granted by the King. 1738Hist. Crt. Excheq. v. 87 The Profit of the County was likewise increased by Arentations of Assarts. 1766Barrington Anc. Stat. (1796) 36 note, Assarts are places where the wood has been grubbed up.
2. The action of grubbing up the trees and bushes in a forest, so as to turn it into arable land.
1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest ix. §i. (1615) 67/1 An Assart, is the plucking up of those woods by the rootes that are thickets or couerts of the Forest, to make the same a plaine or arrable land. a1625Cope in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 123 Lately revived by your Majesty's Commission of Assarts. 1880J. Williams Rights of Common 231 No person having lands within a forest could plough up any part of his lands which had not been ploughed up before, and to do so was considered a grievous offence and was called an assart.
3. attrib.
1670[see next]. 1863Wise New Forest iv. 43 James I. granted no less than twenty assart lands. |