Terms beginning with "B" (423 total)

Bank v. Bales, 64 Neb

870, 80 N. W. 945; Fleet v. Youngs, 11 Wend. OF Y.) 622; Schurtz v. Romer, 81 Cal. 244, 22 Pac. 657; Winstead v. Evans (Tex. Civ. App.) 33 8S. W. 580; Coe v. Erb, 59 Ohio St. 259, 52 N. B. 640, 69 Am.

Bank v. Bond, 1 Ohio St

622; Murphy v. Mercer County, 57 N. J. Law, 245, 31 Atl. 229. Private corporations are those founded by and composed of private individuals, for private purposes, as distinguished from governmental purposes, and having n...

Bank v. Byram, 131 Ill

92, 22 N. E. 842. It may include pleading, but is usually employed as excluding both pleading and: evidence and to designate all the incidental acts and gtens in the course of bringing matters pleaded

Bank v. Genoa, 28 Mise. Rep

71, 59 N. Y. pope, Se: Adams v. Brennan, 72 Miss. 894, 18 uth. 482.—Assessment work... Under the mining laws of the United States, the holder of an unpatented mining claim on the public domain is required, in order to ...

Bank vy. Pierce, 144 Cal

434, 77 Pac. 1012. See Trust DrEeD.—Deed poll. In conveyancing. A deed of one part or made by one party only; and originally so called because the edge of the paper or parchment was polled or cut in a straight line, wh...

Bank, 15 Fed. Cas

153.—Irregular indorsement. One made by a third person before delivery of the note to the payee; an indorsement in blank by a third perecn above the name of the payee, or when the payee does not-indorse at all. Carter ...

Bank, 33 Misc. Rep

128, 67 N. Y¥. Supp. 300. —Peremptory defense. A defense which insists that the plaintiff never had the right to institute the suit, or that. if he had, the original right is extinguished or determined.

Bank, 45 Ohio St

183, 12 N. E. 5; Griswold v. Sawyer, 125 N. Y. 411, 26 N. E. 464; Lasater v. First Nat. Bank (Tex. Civ. App.) 72 8. W. Perso representatives. This term, in its commonly accepted sense, means executors and administrators;...

Bank, 9 Wheat

581, 6 L. Ed. 166.—Day-time. The time during which there is the light of day, as distinguished from night or night-time. That portion of the twenty-four hours during which & man’s person and countenance are distingui...

BANKING

155.—Bank-book. A book kept by a customer of a bank, showing the state of his account with: it.—Bank-check. See CHECK.—Bankeredits. Accommodations allowed to a person on security given to a bank, to draw money on i...

Bankr

13; Bankr. Act 1869, § 55.—Oomptrollers of the hanaper. In Pnglish law. Officers of the court of chancery; their offices were abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. « 103.—State comptroller. A supervising officer of revenue in a...

BANKRUPT

l BANERUPT. A person who has committed an act of bankruptcy; one who has done some act or suffered some act to be done in consequence of which, under the laws of his country, he is lfable to be proceeded against by his c...

BANLEUOA

to the bankrupt laws; the condition of one who has committed an act of bankruptcy, and is liable to be proceeded against by his creditors therefor, or of one, whose circumstances are such that he is entitled, on his volu...

BAR

1. A partition or railing running across a court-room, intended to separate the general public from the space occupied by the judges, counsel, jury, and others concerned in the trial of a cause. In the English courts it ...

BARATRIAM COMMITTIT

risters and every member of the public must stand. Solicitors, being officers of the court, are admitted within it; as are also queen's counsel, barristers with patents of precedence, and serjeants, in virtue of their ra...

Barb

(N. Y.) 617; Bank v. Lawler, 46 Conn. 2A5. (N. Y.) 67; Runkel v. Winemiller, 4 (N. Y.) 177. (N. Y.) 618. (N. Y.) 667. (N. Y.) 440.—Error in law. An error of the court in applying the law to the case on trial, e. g...