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Ranger

In forest law. A sworn of fleer of the forest, whose office chiefly con-sists in three points: To walk daily through his charge to see, hear, and Inquire as weil of trespasses as trespassers iu his bailiwick: to drive the beasts of the forest, both of venery and chace, out of the deafforested ln-to the forested lands; and to present all trespassers of the forest at the next courts holden for the forest. Cowell

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)