conveyancing, contracts. A contract in writing to convey lands to another person, or rather it is the sale of a use therein. In strictness it is not a...
A person to whom a bargain is made, one who receives the advantages of a bargain....
A person who makes a a bargain, and who becomes bound to perform it....
Persons who own and keep a barge for the purpose of carrying the goods of all. such other persons who may desire to employ them. They are liable as co...
A lineal measure, containing one-third of an inch. Danes Ab. c. 211, a. 13, s. 9. The barleycorn was the first measure, with its division and multiple...
estates. A building on a farm used to receive the crop, the stabling of animals, and other purposes.2. The grant or demise of a barn, without words su...
This word has but one signification in American law, namely, hushand: we use baron and feme, for hushand and wife. And in this sense it is going out o...
Eng. law. The name given to the five judges of the Exchequer formerly these were baros of the realm, but now they are chosen from persons learned in t...
By this term, as used in Pennsylvania, is understood an erection of upright posts supporting a sliding roof, usually of thatch. 5 Whart. R. 429....
crimes. One who has been guilty of the offence of barratry....
crimes. In old law French barat, baraterie, signifying robbery, deceit, fraud. In modern usage it may be defined as the habitual moving, exciting, and...
maritime law, crimes. A fraudulent act of the master or mariners, committed contrary to their duty as such, to the prejudice of the owners of the ship...
A measure of capacity, equal to tliirty-six gallons....
civil law. This term is used to denote money which bears no interest....
The incapacity to produce a child. This, when arising from impotence, is a cause for dissolving a marriage. 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. 254....
English law. A counsellor admitted to plead at the bar. 2. Ouster barrister, is one who pleads ouster or without the bar.3. Inner barrister, a serjean...
A contract by which the parties exchange goods for goods. To complete the contract the goods must be delivered, for without a delivery, the right of p...
old English law. The demesne land of a manor, a farm distinct from the mansion....
Something low, inferior. This word is frequently used in composition, as base court, base estate, base fee, &c....
An inferior court, one not of record. Not used....
English law. The estate which base tenants had in their lands. Base tenants were a degree above villeins, the latter being compelled to perform all th...
English law. A tenure in fee at the will of the lord. This was distinguished from socage free tenure. See Co. Litt. 1, 18....
civil law. This is derived from a Greek word, which signifies imperial constitutions. The emperor Basilius, finding the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justin...
A word derived from bas or bast, signifying abject, low, base, and aerd, nature. Minshew, Co. Lit. 244, a. Enfant de bas, a child of low birth. Dupin....
Eng. law. Elder bastard. By the old English law, when, a man had a bastard son, and he afterwards married the mother, and by her had a legitimate son,...
crim. law. The offence of begetting a bastard child....
persons. The state or condition of a bastard. The law presumes every child legitimate, when born of a woman in a state of wedlock, and casts the onus ...
An old French word, which signifies a staff, or club, In some old English statutes the servants or officers of the wardens of the Fleet are so called,...
in French Bataille, Old English law. An ancient and barbarous mode of trial, by Bingle combat, called wager of battel, where, in appeals of felony, th...
It is proposed to consider, 1. What is a battery, 2. When a battery, may be justified.2. 1. A battery is the unlawful touching the person of another ...
An elevation of the bed of a river under the surface of the water, but it is sometimes used to signify the same elevation when it has risen above the ...
crim. law. A house of ill-fame, (q. v.) kept for the resort and unlawful commerce of lewd people of both sexes.2. Such a house is a common nuisance, a...
Is an enclosure to keep in the water for the supply of a mill or other contrivance, so that the water may be able to, drive the wheels of such mill. S...
The sea shore. (q. v.)...
A signal erected as a sea mark for the use of mariners, also, to give warning of the approach of an enemy. 1 Com. Dig. 259, 5 Com. Dig. 173....
Eng. law. A messenger or apparitor of a court, who cites persons to appear to what is alleged against them, is so called....
One who bears or carries a thing.2. If a bill or note be made payable to bearer, it will pass by delivery only, without endorsement, and whoever fairl...
Eng. crim. law. Such as bear down or oppress others, maintainers. In Ruffheads Statutes it is employed to translate the French word emparnours, which ...
These words are frequently used in conveyancing and in pleading, as, for example, a certain indenture bearing date the first day of January, 1851, whi...
Eng. law. Fair pleading. See Stultiloquium. 2. This is the name of a writ upon the statute of Marlbridge, 52 H. III. c. 11, which enacts, that neither...
Eng. law. A cryer or messenger of a court, who cites men to appear and answer. There are also inferior officers of a parish or liberty who bear this n...
The name of a well known insect.2. Bees are considered ferae naturae while unreclaimed, and they are not more subjects of property while in their natu...
One who obtains his livelihood by asking alms. The laws of several of the states punish begging as an offence....
In old English, haviour without the prefix be. It is the manner of having, holding, or keeping ones self or the carriage of ones self with respect to ...
As a word of discourse, Signifies need, (egestas, necessitas, indigentia.) It comes from behoove, (Sax. behoven,) to need or have need of. In a second...
The conviction of the mind, arising from evidence received, or from information derived, not from actual perception by our senses, but from. the relat...
Lower in place, beneath, not so high as some other thing spoken of, of tacitly referred to. 2. The court below is an inferior court, whose, proceeding...
Latin Bancus, used for tribunal. In England there are two courts to which this word is applied. Bancus Regius, Kings Bench Bancus Communis, Com- mon B...
crim. law. The name of a process sometimes given to an attachment issued by order of a criminal court, against an individual for some contempt, or for...
English law. A bencher is a senior in the inns of court, entrusted with their government and direction....
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