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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.