ATTACHMENT out of the Forest, is one of the three courts held in the Forest. The lowest court is called the court of Attachment, or wood mote court; the mean, swan mote; and the highest, the justice in eyre's seat. This attachment is by three means, by goods and chattels, by body, pledges, and mainprize, or the body only. This court is held every forty days throughout the year, whence it is called the forty-days court.
ATTACHMENT out of the Forest
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