BEAR

To support, sustain, or carry; to give rise to; or to produce, so,me thing else as an incident or awpliary. -Bear arms. To carry arms as weapons and with reference to their military use, not to wear,them about the, person as part of the dre . Aymette v. State, 2 Humph. (Tenn.) 158. As applied to fire-arms. includes the right to load and shoot them, and to use them as such things 11,re, generally used. Hill v. State, 53 Ga. 480. -Bear interest. To generate interest, so that the instrument or loan spoken of shall produce or yield interest at the rate specified by the parties. or granted by law. Slaughter v. Slaughter, 21 Ind. App. 641, 52 N. E. 995.- Bearer. One who carries or holds a thing. When a check, note, draft, etc., is payable to '"bearer," it imports that the contents thereof shall be payable to any person who may pre- 1ent the instrument for paymeiit. ThompsoQ. v. Perrine, 106 U. S. 589, 1 Sup. Ct: 564, 1568, 27 L. Ed. 298; Bradford v. Jenks, 3 Fed. Ca&:'ci:1,132..J Hubbard v. Railroad Co., 14 A~b. Prac.,(N,.x!) 278.~earer~ ID old. l!Jnglli!h law. [s. 130]