Baculus

Lat. In old English practice. A staff, rod or wand, anciently used in the ceremony of making livery of seisixH where there was no building on the land. Fiat seysina perfustim etper baculum; seisin should be made by rod and staff. Bract. fol.

40.

Baculus nuntiatorius; a warning or summoning stick. A white stick or wand, by erecting which on the grounds of a defendant in real actions, he was anciently warned or summoned to appear in court at the return of the original writ.

3 Bl. Com. 379.

A baton, such as combatants fought with in the duellum. Frangitur eorum baculus; their baton is broken. A term anciently applied to persons convicted of a felony on their own confession, signifying that they could not bring an appeal agsunst any one. Bract, fol.

152. 2 Beeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 43.