bearers

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bearers - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  BEARERS, Eng. crim. law. Such as bear down or oppress others; maintainers. 
  In Ruffhead's Statutes it is employed to translate the French word 
  emparnours, which signifies, according to Kelham, undertakers of suits. 4 
  Ed. III. c. 11. This word is no longer used in this sense.