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butts and bounds
plural noun
Law.
- the boundary lines of a piece of land, as used in deeds, titles, etc.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of butts and bounds1
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That is a country of laws; and their very sailors are all full of "rights" and "wrongs;" of "justice and injustice;" and of defining crimes, and ascertaining "the butts and bounds" of national and individual rights.
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The whole were under the command of a commodore, while captain Hutchinson, agent for the prisoners of war, exercised a sort of control over the whole; but the butts and bounds of their jurisdiction I never knew.
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We desire you to assign the Butts and Bounds of each of us; and that for the future we may both enjoy our own.
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