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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In old English law

Without amends; without the privilege of making satisfaction for a crime by a pecuniary payment; without relief or remedy. Cowell; Blount. The word (written "bootless") is still retained in the sense of "vain" or "useless."

Cowell.