i $0 A Treatise.of Cap. 8.

m. 2o.H.&tofc And as at the Common Law, is a tenant so? term ofp'*J* peers do toittingl? suffer a Geadow to be d?vwnedtorch water, wherevx the tame dochbecome fullokNu-lhes ff barren, o? ifhe do plow up his meadow grr-und,and make the wme arable land, that is Md to be swake r so likewise, if a man, hading sGeadow ground,o? a pasture, lxing within the Wings w?elt, withoutthe coverts of the st>?est, and the owner of the tamem. Heskct, in doch plow up his Geadow 0? pasture ground, chat hath*V S reading of mt ^ mx usuallp plowed no? fowen defo?e,and to convertm Fordo ho. she tame into tillage, this Wall be laid to be a waste otchefo?est»

icem, it the people ot a Mole Township do makeWaste in the green hue ok the ko?est, the whole atoton-lhrp Wall be 6 ned to? the tame, viz. de villata deC xx s.

And even as the first fo?est$ were not made, no? ap-pointed, but where great woods and coderts were, to totell o? dettrox the coderts okthe ko?est, isa waste ot thefinest, and puniihable bx the Laws ot the to?est. Andit is to be understood,that there is a great difference be-tween a waste at the Common Law,and a waste bx theFo?est Laws r Fo? bx the Common Law, no man is pu-nishable bx an action ot watte, but he that hath a parti-cular estate, as tenants so? term of life, o? to? pears,and tuch line, and chat is onlx bx him tbat barb the in-heritance in che lame: but bx the Ko?est Laws, it hethat hath estate ot inheritance in the land doth madea waste of the fo?est in the fame, he is punishablecherefo?e, bx the Wing himself onlx, and not bx am?other person.