Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
free warren
A warren privilege giving the grantee the sole right to kill the wildlife to the extent of the grantee's warren area. -Also termed libera warrena. "Free warren is a . . . franchise, erected for preservation or custody ... of beasts and fowls of warren; which being ferae naturae, every one had a right to kill as he could; but upon the introduction of the forest laws . . . these animals being looked upon as royal game and the sole property of our savage monarchs, this franchise of free warren was invented to protect them; by giving the grantee a sole and exclusive power of killing such game . . . on condition of his preventing other persons. A man therefore that has the franchise of warren is in reality no more than a royal gamekeeper; but no man, not even a lord of a manor, could by common law justify sporting on another's soil, or even on his own, unless he had the liberty of free warren." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 38-39 (1766).
free warren.
See WARREN.
libera warrena
See free warren under WARREN.
warren
. 1. A place for the preservation of certain wildlife (such as pheasants, partridges, or rabbits). 2. A privilege to keep wildlife or game in a warren. 3. The area to which the privilege extends.