Bairns

sc. In Scots law. A known term, used to denote one's whole issua Bairns' part: the share of the father's property to which by law the child is entitled, — a third part of the free movables, debts deducted, if the wife survives, and a half if she does not survive. Bal^na, balena, ballena, I. I.

In old English law

One of the " royal fish," sometimes considered to be a kind of whale, the head of which belonged to the king, and the tail to the queen.