Bed

The channel of a stream; the part between the hanks worn by the regular flow of the water. See Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. (U. S.) 426, 14 L. Ed. 189. The phrase divorce from bed and board. contains a legal use of the word synonymous with its popular use. BED-ALE or BID-ALE. A friendly assignation for neighbors to meet and drink at the house of newly married persons or other poor people and then for the guests to contribute to the housekeepers. Cowell.

1. The hollow or channel of a water-course ; the depression between the banka worn by the regular and usual flow of the water. "The bed is that soil so usually covered by water as to be distinguishable from the banks by the character of the soli, or vegetation, or both, produced by the common presence and action of flowing water." Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 427, 14 L. Ed. 189. And see Paine Lumber Co. v. In S. (C. C.) 55 Fed. 864; Alabama v. Georgia, 23 How. 515, 16 L. Eld. 556; Haight v. Keokuk, 4 Iowa, 213; Puiley v. Municipality No. 2, 18 La. 282; Harlan, etc., Co. v. Paschali, 5 Del. Ch. 463.
2. The right of cohabitation or marital intercourse; as in the phrase "divorce from bed and board," or a mensa et thoro.

— Bed of justice. In old French law. The seat or throne upon which the king sat when personally present in parliament; hence it signified the parliament itself.

The channel of a stream; the part between the banks worn by the regular flow of the water.

The hollow or channel of a watercourse; the depression between the banks worn by the regular and usual flow of the water. “The bed is that soil so usually covered by water as to be distinguishable from the banks by the character of the soil, or vegetation, or both, produced by the common presence and action of flowing water.” Curtis, J., 13 Tow. 426. The term also occurs in the phrase “divorce from bed and board,” @ mensa ef thoro; where it seems to indicate the right of cohabitation or marital intercourse.

1. The right of connubial intercourse; cohabitation, q. v. Whence bed and board. See Divorce. 2. The bed of a river is that soil so usually covered by water as to be distinguishable from the banks, by the character of the soil, or vegetation, or both, produced by the common presence and action of flowing water.* Compare Bank, 1.