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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
n. In old English law, signifies a burden -^also, a measure of weight used for certain commodities of the bulkier sort. " Ballast," or the burden needed to trim a vessel, pei'haps includes privilege of carrying merchandise as one pleased, or that of selling by last weight.