Pseudo-Cnut’s forest laws (Ps Cn for)
The text known as Pseudo-Cnut's Constitutiones de Foresta is a forgery produced perhaps during the reign of Henry II (r. 1154-89). Some of its chapters derive from the Instituta Cnuti, while others are original and may speak to late-twelfth-century customs related to the forest law.
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Print editions
- Felix Liebermann, ed., Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols (Halle, 1903–1916), vol. 1, pp. 620–26.
- --, Über Pseudo-Cnuts Constitutiones de Foresta (Halle, 1894).