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Backberend

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Sax. Bearing 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, c. 32.

Used with handhabend, having in the hand.