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Bilboes

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Bilboes [fr. boja, Lat.; boia, Prov.; Boie, O. Fr., fetters], a punishment at sea answering to the stocks on land.

An iron bar with sliding shackles for confining the ankles of prisoners, esp. on shipboard; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

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