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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

In Old English Law. A narrow piece of unploughed land left at the end Of a ploughed field for the turning of the plough. Called, also, butt. Kennett, Paroch.

Antiq. 687; 2 Leon. 70, case 93; 1 Litt. 13.