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VASTUM

L. Latin: A waste or common lying open to the cattle of all tenants who have a right of communing. Cowell. Vastum forestss vel bosei. In old records. Waste of a forest or wood. That part of a forest or wood wherein the trees and underwood were so destroyed that it lay in a manner waste and barren. Paroch. Antiq. 351, 497; Cowell.

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