Barker, 14 Misc. Rep
360, 35 N. Y¥. Supp. 127.
Terms beginning with "B" (423 total)
Barker, 26 Mo. App
491; Brownwell, ete,
Barker, 56 Vt
20,) or (2) an action in which the judgment against the defendant is in the nature of a fine or is intended as a punishment, actions in which the recovery is to be ecompensatory in its purpose and effect not being penal ...
Barn. & -Ald
585.—Keep open. To allow general access to one’s shop. for purposes of traffic, is a violation of a statute forbidding him to “keep open” his shop on the Lord’s day, although the outer entrances are closed. Com...
Barn. &O
(or Cr.). Barnewall & Cresswell’s English King's Bench Reports.
Barnard vy. Kellogg, 10 Wall
388, 19 L. Ed. 987; Wilcocks v. Phillips, 20 Fed. Cas. 1203;
Barnard, 123 Ind
429, 24 N. E. 152; Com. v. Johnson, 3 Pa. Dist. R. 222.
Barnet. Barnet’s Reports, vols
27-29 English Central Criminal Courts Reports.
Barns, 25 Tex
655; .Arnold v. State, 29 Ala. 50; Lafferty v. State, 41 Tex. Cr. R. 606, 56 8. W. 628; Bentley v. State, 82 Ala. 599;
BARONAGE
applied to transfers of personalty, in cases where there is first an executory agreement for the sale, (the bargain,) and then an actual and completed sale.
BARONET
BARONET. Ap English name or title of dignity, (but not a title of nobility,) established A. D. 1611 by James I. It is created. by letters patent, and descends to the male’ heir. Spelman
Barr. Barr’s Reports, vols
1-10 Pennsylvania State;—Barrows’ Reports, vol. 18 Rhode Island.
BARRATROUSB
Fraudulent; the character of barratry
BARRENNESS
ity to bear children
Barring. Obs. St
(or Barring. St.). Barrington’s Observations upon the Statutes from Magna Charta to 21 James I.
Barron County, 44 Wis
691; Foley v. Felrath, 98 Ala. 176, 13 South. 485, 39 Am. St. Rep. 39. —Executed trust. See Trust.—Executed use. See Use.—Executed writ. In practice. A writ carried into effect by the officer to whom it is directed...
BARTER
the latter transaction goods or property are always exchanged for money. Guerreiro v.
Bartlett v. Christhilf, 69 Md
219, 14 Atl. 518; King v. Johnston, 81 Wis. 578, 51 N. W. 1011; Kline v. Hibbard, 80 Hun, 50, 29
Barton, 33 Ark
444; Schaul v. Charlotte, 118
BAS
Fr. Low; inferior; subordinate.
Bass v. Cook, 4 Port
(Ala.) 382; Sparhawk v. Allen, 21 N. H. 27; Burger v. Frakes, 67 Iowa, 460, 23 N. W, 746.
BASTARDUS NON POTEST
tion of which are extant. It remained the law of the Eastern Empire until the fall of Constantinople, in 1453.
BASTARDY — 128
‘BASTARDY. The offense of begetting a bastard child. The condition of a bastard.
BATION
DYING WITHOUT ISSUE. At common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure of issue, and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker. But this rule has been changed in some of the st...
Batt
(or Batty). Batty’s Irish King’s Bench Reports. :
Bax
(or Baxt.). 60-68 Tennessee.
Baxter, 64 Minn
226, 66 N. W. 969. The term is also applied, in England, to the private office of a barrister.
Bay's Reports, vols
1-3 and 5-8 Missouri.
Bayley v. Bailey, 5 Cush
(Mass.) 249; Reagan v. Stanley, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 324; Lane v. Hill, 63 N. H. 398, 44 Atl. 597; Conklin vy. Egerton, 21 Wend. (N. Y.) 436... 7 A will, when it operates upon personal property, is sometimes called a “testam...
BBNEFICIO PRIMA [(ECOLESIAS
TICO HABENDO.] In English law. An ancient writ, which was addressed by the king to the lord chancellor, to bestow the benefice that should first fall in the royal gift, above or under a specified value, upon a person nam...
BD
1085. 816; Trust Co. v. Norris, 61 Minn. 256, 63 N. W. 634.
BE
589: Holt v. Somerville, 127 Mass. 408: 710, 2 Am. St. Rep. 462: Tanton v. 14, 42 L. R. A. 826; Cummings v. Bank, 101 U. 8S. 162, 25 L. Ed. 903. 649; Young v. Renshaw, 102 Mo. App. 173, 76 S. W. 701; Ex parte Lehman, ...
BEACH
tery; hence the two terms are commonly combined in the term “assault and battery.” waters, means the space between ordinary high and low water mark, or the space over which the tide usually ebbs and flows. It is a t...
Beach, 122 Cal
37, 54 Pac. 369; Cummington v. Wareham, 9 Cush. (Mass.) 585; French v.
Beat
(or Beatty). Beatty’s Irish Chan cery Reports.
Beaumont, 1 Whart
(Pa.) 53, 20 Am. Dec. 83; Clark v. Robinson, 88 IIL 502; Crosswell v. People, 13 Mich. 427, 87 Am. Dec. 774;
Beaw
(or Beaw. Lex Merc.). Beawes’ Lex Mercatoria.
Beck vy. McGillis, 9 Barb. { ¥.) 35
56; Lang don y. Astor, 3 Duer (N. Y¥.) 477, 541.
Beckwith, 10 N. Y. St. Rep
97; Page v. Rives, 18 Fed. Cas. 992. Sometimes, by an extension of meaning, the share or portion assigned to a given person on the distribution of any estate or fund, as, under an assignment for creditors or under insolv...
BED
Those who bore down upon or oppressed otbers; maintainers. Cowell—Bearing date. Disclosing a date on its face; having a cer tain date. These words are often used in conveyancing, and in pleading, to introduce the date ...
Bed. Cas
715; Solis Cigar Co. v. Pozo, 16
BEDEREPE
aA service which certain tenants were anciently bound to perform, as to reap their landlord’s corn at harvest. Said by Whishaw to be still in existence in some parts of England. Blount; Cowell; Whishaw.
Bee Davis v. Lowden, 56 N. J. Eq
126, 38 . Atl. 648; Glenn v. Glenn, 41 Ala. 580; Spinning v. Spinning, 43 N. J. Eg. 215, 10 Atl. 270.
Beebe vy. Morrell, 76 Mich
114, 42 N. W. 1119, 15 Am. St. Rep. 288. But, in general, “file,” or “the files,” is used loosely to denote the official custody of the court or the place in the offices of a court where the records and
Beers, 23 Wend
(N. Y.) 108, 129, 142. (N. Y.) 172; Codd v. Rathbone, 19 N. Y. 89; First Parish v. Dunning, 7 Mass. 447., A corporation aggregate is one composed of a number of individuals vested with corporate powers; and a “corpora...
Bell H.L
(or Bell, H.L.Sc.). Bell’s House of Lord’s Cases, Scotch Appeals.
Bell Med
L. J. Bell’s Medico Legal Journal.
Bell Oot
(or Svwo.). Bell’s octavo Re ports, Scotch Court of Session.
Bell Se. Dig
bBell’s Scottish Digest.
Bell, 18 Colo
346, 32 Pac. 989, 20 L. R. A. 241; Home Mut. Ins. Co. v. Roe, 71 Wis. 33, 386 N. W. 594; Halpin v. Insurance Co., 120 N. Y. 73, 23 N. E. 989; Southwest Missouri