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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The channel of a stream; the part between the hanks worn by the regular flow of the water.
See Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. (U. S.) 426, 14 L. Ed. 189.
The phrase divorce from bed and board. contains a legal use of the word synonymous with its popular use. BED-ALE or BID-ALE. A friendly assignation for neighbors to meet and drink at the house of newly married persons or other poor people and then for the guests to contribute to the housekeepers.
Cowell.