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Bar Fee

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In English law

A fee taken by the sheriff, time out of mind, for every prisoner who is acquitted. Bac. Abr. "Extortion."

Abolished by St 14 Geo. III. c. 26; 55 Geo. III. c. 50; 8 & 9 Viet. c. 114.