1lawto deforest, remove (land) from forest status:
(
1215;
MS: 1226
)
[T]otes les forez qui sunt aforestees en nostre tens seient maintenant desaforestees
361.47
(
c.1280
)
desaforester lur boys et lur terres en N.
4
(
1305
)
une tierre [...] en la foreste de M., laquele est ore desaforestee par la poralee
i 476
(
1348
)
enforester ce qe fuist desaforestez
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
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 [...]
i 144
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desaforester (1215)