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Definition of Assarted
1. assart [v] - See also: assart
Literary usage of Assarted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Sir Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"... these lands were assarted) at all: there- fore the grant must be interpreted
to create tithes of these lands instead of its being interpreted to say, ..."
2. Collections for a History of Staffordshire. by William Salt Archaeological Society (1884)
"To be taken into the King's hands. Fine 12t/. Margery, the daughter of Robert
Aylward of Rodbaston, had newly assarted half an acre in ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1905)
"... of all the land which he had or could have both assarted or to be assarted,
both meadow and arable land of his demesne lying within these bounds (as in ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Tithes by William Eagle (1830)
"... King Edward I. granted to the Bishop of Llandaff all tithes arising upon the
lands in or before the reign of Edward I., or at any time since assarted, ..."
5. English Economic History: Select Documents edited by Alfred Edward Bland (1919)
"... saving however to each of them common of herbage after the corn was carried,
and most of them assarted their part, but the wood whereof complaint is ..."
6. Rockingham Castle and the Watsons by Charles Wise (1891)
"This was regarded as a heinous offence, and he who assarted his own woods ...
If a man assarted the King's wood "his body shall be detained until he make a ..."
7. A Collection of the Reports of Cases, the Statutes, and Ecclesiastical Laws by Francis King Eagle, Edward Younge (1826)
"... in the grant of Ed. 1, should be confined to such lands only аз were at that
time assarted or were intended shortly to be so. ..."
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