English edit

Etymology edit

back +‎ bond

Noun edit

backbond (plural backbonds)

  1. (Scots law) An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for backbond”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)