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Burying Ground

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A place appropriated for depositing the dead; a cemetery. In Massachusetts, burying grounds cannot be appropriated to roads without the consent to the owners.

Gen. St. Mass. 244. BU8CARL, or BUT8ECARL.

In Saxon and old English law. Seamen or marines; m Uites iwMMei.

Spelman.