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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[from L. Fr. forclorer, T.] To shut out or exclude; to bar.

2 Inst. 298. Stat. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 39.

In equity practice

To bar an equity of redemption.

1 Steph. Com. 284. 1 Daniell's Chanc. Pr. 262.