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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 narrow piece of unploughed land left at the end of a ploughed field for the turning of the plough. Called, also, "butt."

Kennett, Par. Ant. 587; 2 Leon. 70, case 93; 1 Litt. 13.