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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, A gift of the second-best beast belonging to a man at his death, taken along with the corpse, and presented to the priest.

St. 21 Hen. VIII. c. 6; Cowell; 2 Bl. Comm. 425.