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Pound

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

An enclosure; an enclosed place in which trained are shut up. Pound breacli: the pound, for the purpose of taking out the cattle Pound master: the keeper of a pound.

Ponndag^e.

An allowance to a sheriff on the amount ecution, estimated in England, and formerly in so much on the pound.

In old English law

A subsidy to the value of pound, granted to the king, of all merchandise