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Errant

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Itinerant; wandering.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Wandering; itinerant; applied to justices on circuit, and bailiffs at large, etc.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Erraunt, I fr. In English V. Eyre.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Wandering; itinerant; applied to justices on circuit, and bailiffs at large, etc.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Erraunt. L. Fr. & Eng. [from Fr. eirer, errer; to travel, to go about.] In English law. Itinerant; travelling about. A term formerly applied to justices, who went the circuit (otherwise called justices in eyre,) and to bailiffs at large. Cowell. Britt. fol. 1 b. See Bailiffs errant, Eyre.