Backberinde, Backverinde, Or Backberend

Backberinde, Backverinde, or Backberend, bearing upon the back, or about a man. Where a thief is apprehended with the things stolen in his possession, also called being taken with the mainour, as having the goods in his hand, 2 Inst. 188. It was one of the four circumstances wherein a forester might have arrested the body of a trespasser in a forest; viz., dog-draw, i.e., drawing after a deer that he has hurt; stable-stand, i.e., at his standing with a knife, gun, bow, or greyhound, ready to shoot or course; backberend, i.e., carrying away upon his back the deer which he had killed; bloody-handed (red handed), i.e., when he had shot or coursed, and was imbrued with blood, 4 Inst. 294.