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Four

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Fr.

In old French law. An oven or bake-house. Four tanal, an oven, owned by the seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread for baking. Also the proprietory right to maintain such an oven.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In old Frenchlaw. An oven or bake-house. Four banal, an oven, owned by the seignior of the estate, to which the tenants were obliged to bring their bread for baking. Also the proprietary right to maintain such an oven.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

Has no technical meaning. Four corners. All parts; the whole. Take by the four comers: construe an instrument as a whole.' Four seas. The waters surrounding England. Within the four seas; within her territorial jurisdiction. On_ all-fours. Said of cases precisely alike. See All-fotjes.