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Bairns

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

A known term, used to denote one's whole issue.

Ersk. Inst. 3. 8. 48.

But it is sometimes used in a more limited sense. Bell, Diet.