Backside

A yard at the back part of or behind a house, and belonging thereto. The term was formerly much used both in conveyances and in pleading, but is now of infrequent occurrence, except in conveyances which repeat an ancient description.

Chit. Prac. 177; 2 Ld. Raym. 1399.

BACULUS (Lat.) In old English practice. A staff, rod, or wand, anciently used in the ceremony of making livery of seisin, where there was no building on the land. Fiat seysina per fustim et per baculum, seisin should be made by rod and staff. Bracton, fol.

40; Fleta, lib. 3, c. 15, § 5.

Baculus nuntiatorius, a warning or summoning stick. A white stick or wand, by erecting which on the grounds_ of a defendant in real actions he was anciently warned or summoned to appear in court at the return of the original writ.

8 Bl. Comm. 379.

A baton, such as combatants fought with in the duellum. Frangitur eorum baculus, their baton is broken. A term anciently applied to persons convicted of a felony on their own confession, signifying that they could not bring an appeal against any one. Bracton, fol.

152.

See Fleta, lib.

1, c. 38, § 16; 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 43.

See "Baston."

See Baston.