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Baron

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A lord or nobleman; the most general title of nobility in England.

LBL.

Comm, 898, 399, A particular degree or title of nobility, next to a viscount, A judge of the court of exchequer.

8 BL Comm. 44; Cowell.

A freeman. Co. Littl. 58a, Also a vassal holding directly from the king. A husband; occurring in this sense in the phrase “baron et feme,” husband and wife.