Park, in the modern acceptation of the word, is an extensive adorned in-closure surrounding the house and gardens, and affording pasturage either to deer or cattle. In Great Britain, a park, strictly and legally, is a large extent of a man's own ground inclosed and privileged for wild beasts of chase by prescription or by royal grant. (Coke's Litt. 233. a. Blackstone, 2. 38.) The beasts of park, or chase, according to the definition of ancient sportsmen, were the buck, doe, fox, marten, and roe; but in a common and legal sense, Coke says, beasts of park were all the beasts of the forest. It has been decided by the superior courts of law, that to constitute a park these circumstances are essential: - 1. A grant from the king, or prescription. 2. That it be inclosed by a wall, pale, or hedge. 3. That it contain beasts of park, and if it fail in any one of these, it is a total disparking. (Croke Car. 59.) Of such parks there are said to be 781 in England. (Brooks Abr. Action sur Stat. 48).