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desaforester (1215)
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The form desafforester is a cross reference to the following entry:

desaforester (1215)

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desafforester,  disaforester;  desforester  (deaforester  Stats i 144)  
  FEW:  forestis *3,709b Gdf:  desaforester 2,530a GdfC: ∅ TL: desaforester 2,1457 DEAF:  forest (desaforester)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED:  disafforeten v.  DMLBS:  disafforestare 675a

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lawto deforest, remove (land) from forest status: 
( 1215; MS: 1226 )  [T]otes les forez qui sunt aforestees en nostre tens seient maintenant desaforestees  Magna Carta 361.47
( c.1280 )  desaforester lur boys et lur terres en N.  Northumb 4
( 1305 )  une tierre [...] en la foreste de M., laquele est ore desaforestee par la poralee  Rot Parl1 i 476
( 1348 )  enforester ce qe fuist desaforestez  Rot Parl1 ii 203
( 1391 )  par yceste matiers le dit Johan est deschargeable par droit, par cause qe les ditz terres ne sont pas de demeyns du Roy & sont disaforestez  Rot Parl1 iii 298
♦law(of people) to put outside forest law: 
( 1305 )  si aucuns de ceus qi sount desafforestez par la puralee voillent mieux estre dedenz forest [...]  Stats i 144
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