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Backberend

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Sax. Bearlng upon the back or about the person. Applied to a thief taken with the stolen property in his immediate possession.

Bract. 1, 3, tr. 2, ce. 32.

Used with handhabend, having in the hand.: