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COPPICE, or COPSE (from an O. Fr. cop...

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 111 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COPPICE, or COPSE (from an O. Fr. copeis or coupeis, from See also:Late See also:Lat. colpare, to cut with a See also:blow; colpas, the Late Lat. for "blow," is a shortened See also:form of colapus or colaphus, adapted from the Gr. ,co)  .aios), a small See also:plantation or thicket of planted or self-sown trees, which are cut periodically for use or See also:sale, before the trees grow into large See also:timber . Whether naturally or artificially grown the produce is looked on by the See also:English See also:law as fructus industrialis . The See also:tenant for See also:life or years may appropriate this produce (see Dashwood v . Magniac, 1891, 3 Ch . 306) .

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