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Baculus

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

Black's Law Dictionary

A rod, staff or wand, used in old English practice in making livery of seisin where no building stood on the land, (Bract. 40;) a stick or wand, by the erection of which on the land involved in a real action the defendant was summoned to put in his appearance; this was called "baculus nuntiatorius."

3 Bl. Comm. 279.