Legal Definition and Related Resources of Boteless
Meaning of Boteless
In old English law. Without amends; without the privilege of making satisfaction for a crime by a pecuniary payment; without relief or remedy. Cowell; Blount. The word (written “bootless”) is still retained in the sense of “vain” or “useless.” Cowell.
What does Boteless mean in American Law?
The definition of Boteless in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
In old English law, without remedy or way of making amends, especially without the privilege of discharging criminal liability by making a compensatory payment. It came generally to mean unavailing; cf. Shakespeare”s “When in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes,/I all alone beweep my outcast state,/And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries . .. .”
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