Baron
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A general titl& of nobility (1 Bl. Comm. 398); a particular title of nobility, next to that of viscount; a judge of the exchequer (Cowell; 1 Bl. Comm. 44).
A husband
In this sense it occurs in the phrase baron et feme, husband and wife (1 Bl. Comm. 432), and this is the oply sense in which it is used in the American law, and even in this sense it is now but seldom found.
A freeman
Especially applied to the inhabitants of the Cinque Ports,
Romney
Sandwich, Hastings, Rotherhithe, and Dover, and the two latterly constituted ports of Winchelsea and Rye. It has essentially the same meanings as bar a (q. v.)