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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Erraunt.

L. Fr. & Eng. [from Fr. eirer, errer; to travel, to go about.] In English law. Itinerant; travelling about. A term formerly applied to justices, who went the circuit (otherwise called justices in eyre,) and to bailiffs at large.

Cowell.

Britt. fol.

1 b.

See Bailiffs errant, Eyre.