Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stable stand \Sta"ble stand`\ (O.Eng. Law)
   The position of a man who is found at his standing in the
   forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at
   a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready
   to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends
   stealing the king's deer. --Wharton.