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Meaning of Defensum
(Law. Lat.) In old English law. An inclosure, or any fenced ground. ,2 Mon. Ang. 114; 3 Mon. Ang. 306. Inclusum et positum in defensum, inclosed and put in defense or fence. Bracton, fol. 228. Rationabilia defensa, reasonable defenses. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 19, § 7. A part of an open field, appropriated to a particular use, as for hay, which was hence said to be in defenso. Cowell. A state of several occupancy or appropriation. Magna Charta, c. 16. Defense, in the old sense of prohibition ; a state of prohibition, or in which the use of a thing is prohibited by law. St. Westminster II. c. 47.
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Concept of “Defensa, Defensum”
Traditional meaning of defensa, defensum in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) An enclosure; fenced land; a deer park.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Defensa, Defensum”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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