Crassus
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Crassa, Lat. [Fr. grosse.] Large, gross. Crassus piscis; (craspice;) large fish. Bract. fol.
55 b.
Called in another place, grossus piscis; sicut balaena, sturgio et alii pisces regales; (the whale, sturgeon and other royal fish.) Id. fol.
14, 120.
These were called royal fish, as belonging to the king, when either thrown ashore, or caught near the coast.
1 Bl. Com. 290.