A bond under the hand of a debtor, counter-signed by the sovereign. This bond can be enforced without legal process, but has quite fallen into disuse.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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