Bindley, 114 Pa
559, 8 Atl. 1; Wetmore v.
Terms beginning with "B" (423 total)
Bird v. Young, 56 Ohio St
210, 46 N. E. 819: In re Smith’s Estate, ‘98 Cal. 636, 33
BISANTIUM, BESANTINE, BEZANT
An ancient coin, first issued at Constantinople; it was of two sorts,—gold, equivalent to a ducat, valued at 9s. 6d.; and silver, computed at 2s. They were both current in England. Wharton.
BISCITE
REFINEMENT. A term sometimes employed to describe verbiage inserted in a pleading or indictment, over and above what is necessary to be set forth; or an objection to a plea or indictment on the ground of its failing to i...
Biscoe, 1 Hempst
114, Fed. Cas. No. 18,239; Portsmouth v. Donaldson, -32 Pa: 202, 72
Biscuit Co
v. Klotz (C. C.) 44 Fed. 725; U. S. v. Trans-Missourt Freight Ass’n, 58 Fed. 65,70. C. A. 15, 24 L. R. A. 73.
Bisp. Eq
(or Bisph. Eq.). Bispham’s Equity.
Bispbam’s Estate, 24 Wkly. Notes Cas
(Pa.) 79.—Olear days. If a certain number of clear days be given for the doing of any act, the time is to be reckoned exclusively, as well of ae aay & Ala. b8t as the last. Rex v. Justices, 3 d. 581; Hodgins v. Hancock...
Biss
504, Fed. Cas. No. 9,051; Hayden v. (or Bis.). Bissell’s Circuit Court Reports. Bitt. Chamb. Rep.
BISSEXTILE
BINDING OVER. The act by which a court or magistrate requires a person to enter into a recognizance or furnish bail to appear for trial, to keep the peace, to attend as a witness, etc. in order to make the year.agree wi...
Bistate, 2 Fed. Cas
42; McKinney v. Stewart, 5 Kan. 304.—Heir beneficiary. In the civil law. One who has accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. Heirs are divided into two classes, according to the manner...
Bittick, 108 Mo
1838, 15 S. W. 325, 11 L.
BIZ
KEYUS. A guardian, warden, or keeper.
BL Comm
47-56; People vy. Stewart, 7 Cal. 143; Miller v. Miller, 187 Pa. 572, 41 Atl. 277. —Conscientious scruple. A scruple against taking an oath, serving as a juror in a capital case, doing military duty, or the like, is an...
Bl. Com
(or Bl. Comm.). Commentaries.
Bl. Comin
196, 249; 2 Bl. Comm. 168; Co.
Bla
0om. Blackstone’s Commentaries.
BLACK ACRE and WHITE AORE
Fictitious names applied to pieces of land, and used as examples in the old books.
BLACK ACTS
Old Scotch statutes passed in the reigns of the Stuarts and down to the year 1586 or 1587, so called because printed in black letter. Bell.
BLACK BOOK OF HEREFORD. In
English law. An old record frequently referred to by Cowell and other early writers.
BLACK BOOK OF THE ADMIRALTY
A book of the highest authority in admiralty matters, generally supposed to have been compiled during the reign of Edward
BLACK BOOK OF THE EXCHEQ
UER. The name of an ancient book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties, conventions, charters, etc.
Black Rock Springs Imp. Co., 99 Va
747, 40 8: E. 27, 86 Am. St. Rep. 924; Armfield v.
BLACK-MAIL
1. In one of its original meanings, this term denoted a tribute paid by ‘English dwellers, along the Scottish border to influential chieftains of Scotland, as a condition of securing immunity from raids of marauders an...
BLACK-ROD, GENTLEMAN USHER
OF. In England, the title of a chief officer of the king, deriving his name from the Black Rod of office, on the top of which reposes a golden lion, which he carries.
Black, 121, 17 L. Ed
70; The Hyderabad (D. C.) 11 Fed. 754; The Fairfield (D. ©) 80 Fed. 700; The Aquila, 1 C. Rob. 41. —Quasi derelict. When a vessel, without being abandoned, is no longer under the control or direction of those on board...
Blackf
(Ind.) 333; Derby v. Jones, 27 Me. 860; Davis v. Lowden, 56 N. J. Eq. 126, 38
BLACKLEG
list or those among whom it is intended to circulate; as where a trades-union “blacklists” workmen who refuse to conform to its rules, or where a list of insolvent or untrustworthy persons is published by a commercia...
Blackstone, 115 Mo
424, 22 8. W. 370. Also, a plan or project; a scheme to trick or deceive; a stratagem or artifice; as in the laws relating to fraud and cheating. State v.
BLADA
‘ BLADA. In old English law. Growing erops of grain of any kind. Spelman. All manner of annual grain. Cowell. Harvested grain. Bract. 2170; Reg. Orig. 940, 95.
Blade, 28 Fed. Cas
980; Spring v. Gray, 6
Blain, 45 Vt
544: Poor vy. Poor, 8 N. H. 815, 29 Am. Dec. 664.
Blake, 39 Me
324; State v. Williams, 32 La.
Blakely v
Frazier, 11 8. © 134; Rogers v.
BLANCH HOLDING
BLENDED FUND. In WPngland, where a testator directs his real and personal estate to be sold, and disposes of the proceeds as forming one aggregate, this is called a “blended fund.”
Blankenship v. State, 98 Ga
814, 21 S. B. 1380; State v. Munger, 15 Vt. 293; Allred v.
Blatchf
325, 10 Fed. Cas. 1195. See Ap- 218, 225, 5 N. Y. Leg. Obs. 286, Fed. 325,. fed. Cas. No. 17,938; Higgins v. Keuffel, 140 U. S. 428, 11 Sup. Ct. 731, 35. 211, Fed. Cas. No. 11,329. 321, Fed. Cas. No. 4,303. 102, Fed...
Bliesm. Postn
55. The interpretation of law obtains, the force of law.
Blinn, 99 Cal
216, 33 Pac. 841. —Legal incapacity. This expression implies that the person in view has the right vested in him, but is prevented by some impediment from exercising it; as in the case of minors, femes covert, lunatics...
Bliss v. Geer, 7 Ill. App
617: Norwood vy. Lassiter, 182 N. C. 52, 43: S. E. 509; Salentine v. Insurance Co., 79 Wis. 580, 48 N. W. 855, 12 L. R. A. 690.
Blood v. Goodrich, 9 Wend
(N. Y.) 68, 75, 24 Am. Dec. 121; Banorgee v. Hovey, 5
BLOOK
BLOCK. A square or portion of a city or town inclosed by streets, whether partially or wholly occupied by buildings’ or containing only vacant lots. Ottawa v. Barney, 10 Kan. 270; Fraser v. Ott, 95 Cal. 661, 30 Pac. 79...
Bloom. Man
(or Neg.) Cas. Bloomfield’s Manumission (or Negro) Cases, New Jersey.
Blount.—Gyricsceat
(From cyric, church, and sceat, a tribute.) In Saxon law. A tribute or payment due to the church. Cowell.
Blydenburgh v. Miles, 39 Conn
490.—Exces= sive damages. See DAMAGES.
BO. Bouv. Inst
no. 702. The words “primary” and “direct,” contrasted with “secondary,” when spoken with reference to an obligation, refer to the remedy provided by law for enforcing the obligation, rather than to the charac...
BOARD
common ancestor. One person is “of the blood” of another when they are related by lineal descent or collateral kinship. Miller v. Speer, 38 N. J. Eq. 572; Delaplaine v. Jones, 8 N. J. Law, 346; Leigh v. Leigh, 15 of...
Board of Education v. Minor, 23 Ohio St
211, 13 Am. Rep. 233; Vidal v. Girard, 2 How. 127, 11 L. Ed. 206; Updegraph v. Comm., 11 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 394; Mohney v. Cook, 26 Pa. 342 67 Am. Dec. 419. Lindenmuller v. People, 33 N. Y.) 548; Rex v. Woolston, 2 Strange...
Board of Education, 108 Ky
783, 57 S. W. 612. But there may also be “public” corporations which are not “municipal” even in this wider sense of the latter term. Such, according to some of the authorities, are the “irrigation districts”...
Board of Reviewers, 41 La. Ann
1156,.3. South. 507.—Actual change of possession. jin statutes of frauds. An open, visible, and unequivocal change of possession, manifested by the usual outward signs, as distinguished from a pea formal or constructiv...