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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat. capitalis plegius.] In old English law. A headborow, or borsholder. Spelman, voc. Borsholder, Friborga.

Yelverton, 186.