Bell. Cas
t. H. VIII. es (collected by Bellewe). t. R. I. Bellewe’s English King’s Bench Reports (time of Richard IJ).
Terms beginning with "B" (423 total)
BELLO PARTA CEDUNT
BEGA. A land measure used in the East Indies. In Bengal it is equal to about a third part of an acre.
BELLUM
Lat. In public law. War. Ah armed contest between nations; the state of those who forcibly contend with each other. Jus belli, the law of war.
Bemis v. Kyle, 5 Abb. Prac
(N. S.) (N. Y.) 233.—General field. Several distinct lots or pieces of land inclosed and fenced in as one tommon field. Mansfield v. Hawkes, 14 Mass. 440.—General inclosure act. The statute 41 Geo. III. c. 109, which...
Ben. Union, 76 Ala
251, 52 Am. Rep. 325. —Marriage ceremony. The form, religious or civil, for the solemnization of a marriage. e consideration. The consideration furnished by an intended marriage of two persons. It is the highest consid...
Benedict, 11 Vt
236, 34 Am. Dec. 688.
BENEFICE
Fr. In French law. A benefit or advantage, and particularly a privilege given by the law rather than by the agreement of the parties.
BENEFICIARY
dal tenure. 3 Steph. Comm. 77, note, c; 4
BENERTH
BENERTH. A feudal service rendered by the tenant to his lord with plow and cart. Cowell.
Beng
L.R. Bengal Law Reports, India.
Benl
in Keil. Benloe or Bendloe in Keilway’s Reports.
Benner, 20 Fla
700; Sans v. New York, 31
Bennett v. Bennett, 66 dil
ae Boa abs 28; pr nernney
Bennett v. Eddy, 120 Mich
300, 79 N. W. 481. —Mized subjects of property. Such as fall within the definition of things real, but which are attended, nevertheless, with rome of the legal qualities of things personal, as emblements, fixtures, and...
Benth. Ev
(or Benth. Jud. Lv.). Bentham on Rationale of Judicial Evidence.
Benth. Jud. Ev
3; Burrill, Cire. Ev. 3, 119. —Ultimate fact. The final or resulting fact reached be processes of logical reasoning from the detached or successive facts in evidence and which is fundamental and determinative of the wh...
Beok. Beck’s Reports, vols
12-16 Colorado; also vol. 1 Colorado Court of Appeals.
BEPARATS
Sententia facit jus, et ros judicata pre veritate accipitur. LEllesm. Post. N. 565. Judgment creates right, and what is adjudicated is taken for truth. ’
BERCARILUS
taken most strongly against the grantor.
BEREWICHA
BEREWIOCHA, or BEREWIOA. Inold English law. <A term used in Domesday for a village or hamlet belonging to some town or manor.
Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym
913; Barrett v. Cole, 49 N. O. 40; Surber v. McClintic, 10 W. Va. 242; Commercial Bank v. _ Flowers, 116 Ga. 219, 42 8. EK. 474.
Bernero, 97 Mo. App
314, 71 S. W. 451. The phrase may also mean a covenant which is personal to the covenantor, that is, one which he must perform in person, and cannot procure another person to perform for him.
Berry. Berry's Reports, vols
1-28 Missouri. Court of Appeals.
Bers v. St. Louis, 20 Mo
574. : —Purchase money. The consideration in money paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer to the seller of property, particularly of land.
BES
Lat. In the Roman law. A division of the a4, or pound, consisting of eight uncio, or duodecimal parts, and amounting to two-thirds of the aes. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note m.
BESAILE, BESAYLE
The great-grandfather, proavus.
Best & 8S
(or Best & Sm.). Best & Smith’s English Queen’s Bench Reports.
Best, Ev
419. p. 337, $ 300.
Bethel Hotel Co., 96 Tenn
252, Ss. W. 200. 31 L. R. A. 706; Chase v. Chase, 20 R.
BETTER EQUITY. See EQUuITY
BETTERMENT. An improvement put upon an estate which enhances its value more than mere repairs. The term is also applied to denote the additional value which an estate acquires in consequence of some public improvement, a...
BETTERMENT
istence and contents; a copy, or the recollection of a witness, would be secondary evidence. State v. McDonald, 65 Me. 467; Elliott v. Van Buren, 33 Mich. 53, 20 Am. Rep. 668; Scott v. State, 3 Tex. App. 104; Gray v. Pen...
BH
14; Wetzell v. Dinsmore, 4 Daly (N. Y.) 195. 456; Railroad Co. v. Ferguson, 113 Ga. 708, 30 S. E. : L. R. A. 802; Straus v. 930, 68 L. R. A. 587; Hyatt v. Allen, 56 1098, 26 L. R. A. 773; Chase v. Portiand, 86 Me. 367...
BHERIFF
His principal duties are in aid of the criminal courts and civil courts of record; such as serving process, summoning juries, executing judgments, holding judicial sales, and the like. He is also the chief conservator of...
BHO: People v. Onel
188 Ill. 194, 58 N. EB. 006; Gormley v. Taylor, 44 Ga. 76.
Bi. Comm
120; 3 Steph. Comm. 469. 134. 129.—Habeas corpus ad testificandum. <A writ to bring a witness into court, when he is in custody at the time of a trial, commanding the sheriff to have his bodv before the court, to tes...
Bibb
(Ky.) 97; U. 8. v. Three Tons of Coal, 28 (Ky.) 354. - a
Bick
(or Bich. & Hawl.). - Bicknell &
Bicknell v. Spear
88 Misc.. Rep. 389, 77_N.
BIDAL
BIAS. Inclination; bent; prepossession; & preconceived opinion; a predisposition to decide a cause or an issue in a certain way, which does not leave the mind perfectly open to conviction. Maddox v. State, 32 Ga. 587, 79...
BIELBRIEF
to a person beginning to set. up house-kKeeping. Wharton.
Big
L. I. Cas. (or Big. L. & A. Ins. Cas.). Bigelow’s Life and Accident - Insurance Cases.
Bigley v. New York & P. R. S. S. Co
(D. C.) 105 Fed. 74. But the term is also applied to a port in any state other than the state where the vessel belongs or her owner resides. ‘The Canada (D. nee Fed. 124; The Lulu, 10 Wall. 200, 19 L. Ed. 906; Negus v....
Bil. Comm
372; Bass v. Rublee, 76 Vt. 305, 57 Atl. 966: Patteson v. Ford, 2 Grat. (Va. 18; Suydam v. Williamson, 20 How. 436, 1
BILAGINES
in the ancient records tt is used for any cart,. wain, or wagon. . Jacob. ipal laws.
BILANCIIS DEFERENDIS. In Eng
lish law. An obsolete writ addressed to a corporation for the carrying of weights to such a haven, there to welgh the wool anciently licensed for transportation. Reg.
BILL
ment of the plaintiff's cause of action, like a declaration or complaint, and always alleged a trespass as the ground of it, in order to give the court jurisdiction. 3 Bl. Comm. 43. In Scotch law, every summary applicati...
BILLA
L. Lat. A bfll; an original bill
Bills y. Goshen, 117 Ind
221, 20 N. B. 115, 3 L. R. A. 261; State v. Lee, 29 Minn. 445, 18 N. W. 918.
Bilton, Com
118.—Common of pasture. The right or liberty of pasturing one’s cattle upon ‘another man’s land. It may be either appendant, appurtenant, in gross, or because of vicinage. Van Rensselaer v. Radcliff, 10 Wend. (N....
Bin
(Pa.) 244, 5 Am. Dec. 404; Braynard v. (Pa.) 217.