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Definition of disafforest in English: disafforestverb ˌdɪsəˈfɒrɪst [with object]1 another term for deforest Example sentencesExamples - ‘I was shown the spot where, until the disafforesting, it had long lain prostrate,’ says J R. Akerman in A View of the Ancient Limits of the Forest of Wychwood, Archaeologia l858.
- They grazed cattle on disafforested surfaces, building small stone huts to accommodate themselves, as well as the cattle they grazed.
- The sum of £42,000 was expended, and the farm is let at a rental of £4,000; the annual product of the trees, etc., before the ground was disafforested, was about £500.
2English Law
historical Reduce (a district) from the legal status of forest to that of ordinary land. in 1878 what remained of the forest of Essex was disafforested Example sentencesExamples - Its clauses provided the framework of forest law throughout the 13th cent., but only in the 14th cent., when large areas were disafforested, did the political issue subside.
- Hence, the demand to disafforest in chapter 47 of the Magna Carta.
- The parish of Wicken, for example, was disafforested at this time.
- From 1618 the area was disafforested and the land leased, often to people who were already occupying it illegally.
- His defence that King John had disafforested Brewood saved his life and he escaped with only a fine.
- Tendring hundred had been disafforested by king Stephen before the grant of John mentioned above.
- In 1817 the Commission of Woods applied for an Act of Parliament to enclose part of the forest for the Crown, to do away with commoners right in the forest, and disafforest the whole Forest.
- In 1596, the ancient hunting park of Toxteth, which had for 400 years been inhabited only by deer and their keepers, was disafforested by the Earl of Derby.
- Many people found it worth their while to pay the king to disafforest their district, so that they could get out from under that regulation.
Derivatives noun ˌdɪsəfɒrɪˈsteɪʃ(ə)n Hence it was recommended that disafforestation must be allowed after obtaining legal sanction of the commission to check the depletion and degradation of forest areas. Example sentencesExamples - The disafforestation is twice as harmful, as with the trees destruction not only the natural ‘captivators’ of the carbon are wasted, but increases its proportion in the atmosphere.
- The number of forests even in the restricted days after the great disafforestations of Edward III was listed at approximately seventy, and the extent of their liberty must once have been greater.
- These forests were largely unaffected by the disafforestations made by Richard I and John, and the communities within them suffered from John's increasingly rigorous imposition of forest law.
- When the disafforestation took place, the local people lost any rights they had in the Forest, even the right to walk.
noun ˌdɪsəˈfɒrɪstm(ə)nt mass nounEnglish Law historical The reduction of a district from the legal status of forest to that of ordinary land. they ordered the disafforestment of the whole of the forest of Rutland Example sentencesExamples - By the provisions of this charter surveys or perambulations of the royal forests were to be made to ascertain how much land had been improperly enclosed by the Crown, and steps taken for the disafforestment of the portions wrongfully taken in.
- And the perambulation that has already been made and ridden by view of good men according to the form of the said charter of the forest shall stand and at the same time shall be carried out through prompt disafforestment according to the bounds determined by the perambulators, so that the community may at once be seised of them.
- The benefit of the disafforestment existed only for the owner of the lands.
Origin Late Middle English (in sense 2): from Anglo-Latin disafforestare. |