Terms beginning with "B" (423 total)

B. (N

8S.) 764; Goodtitle v. Herring, 1 East. 275; Ewan v. Cox, 9 N. J. Law, 14.—Heir of conquest. In Scotch law. One who succeeds to the deceased in conquest, i. e., lands or other heritable rights to which the deceased nei...

B., 1

2, c. 18, § 10. The form of taking an oath differs in language, agrees in meaning; for it ought to have this sense: that the Deity is invoked.

Bac. Max

82, regula 21. reg. 6; Broom, Max. 278. p. 59, reg. 18; Broom, Max. 642.. p. 88, reg. 8: Broom, Max. 42. pref., and reg. 12. 3. Words ought to be used 80 as to give them their effect.

BAD

back. Hodges v. Raymond, 9 Mass. 316; ambers v. Kyle, 87 Ind. 85. Water caused to flow backward from a steam-vessel by reason of the action of its wheels or screw. some states, the word may have a more precise meaning. ...

Bafley v. Bailey, 25 Mich

185; McCarthy v. Marsh, 5 N. Y. 275; Springer v. Fortune, 2 Handy, (Ohio,) 52. In this sense a child may be the “ancestor” of his deceased parent, or one brother the “ancestor” of another. Lavery v. Egan, 143 Mas...

BAIL

use, but for other purposes, such as a sale and the like. The term includes whatever the passenger takes with him for his personal use or convenience according to the habits or wants of the particular class to which he b...

Bailey v. Dean, 5 Barb

(N. Y.) 303; Ashley v. Frame, 4 Kan. App. 265, 45 Pac. 927; le v. Groves, 134 Mass. 472. But in a more particular sense it means (1) an action on a statute which gives a certain panely to be recovered by any person who w...

BAITING ANIMALS

ed into locatio rei, or hiring, by which the hirer gains a temporary use of the thing; locatio operis factendi, when something is to be done to the thing delivered; locatio operts mcrcium vehendarwm, when the thing is me...

Baker v. Shy, 9 Heisk

(Tenn.) 89 (Tenn.) 89.—Office ant. <A designation of a conveyance made y some officer of the law to effect certain purposes, where the owner is either unwilling or unable to execute the requisite deeds to pass the tit...

Bald

(or Bald. C. C.). Baldwin’s United States Circuit Court Reports ;—Baldus (Commentator on the Code);—Baldasseroni (on Maritime Law).

Baldwin v. Tucker, 112 Ky

282, 65 S. W. 841, 57 L. R. A. 451; Wood v. McCain, 7 Ala. 800. —Univers:# le - See Leaacy. Universal partnership. See PARTNERSHIP.—Universal representation. In Scotch law. A term applied to the representation by an ...

Ballance, 7 Ill

144. At. the common law, an estate in fee simple conditional was a fee limited or restrained to some particular heirs, exclusive of others. But the statute “De Donis” converted all such estates into estates tail. 2

BALLOTTEMENT

Fr. In medical jurisprudence. A test for pregnancy by palpation with the finger inserted in the vagina to the mouth of the uterus. The tip of the finger being quickly jerked upward, the

BALZNA

' BALZENA. A large fish, called by Blackstone a “whale.” Of this the king had the head and the queen the tail as a perquisite whenever one was taken on the coast of England. 1 Bl. Comm. 222.

BAN

1. In old English and civil law. A proclamation; a public notice; the announcement of an intended marriage. Cowell. An excommunication; a curse, publicly pronounced. A proclamation of silence made by a crier in court bef...

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BANK

1. A bench or seat; the bench or tribunal occupied by the judges; the seat of judgment; a court. The full bench, or full court; the assembly of all the judges of a court. A “sitting in bank” is a meeting of all the j...