Butts and bounds

Dictionary: 
Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Boundaries. Butty. A coal mining contractor. Buying of titles. Purchasing interests of land claimants who are not in possession. See 22 Mass. 348. By estimation. An expression used in conveyancing signifying “more or less.”

Author: 
James A. Ballentine
Publisher: 
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Year Published: 
1916
Genre: 
Law Dictionary