BOC
a deed or charter. .ter land. Land boc, a writing for conveying land; a deed or charter; a land-book. —Booc horde. A place where books, writings, or evidences were kept. Cowell.—Boe land. In Saxon law. Allodial land...
Terms beginning with "B" (423 total)
Bodfish v. Bodfish, 105 Mass
317; New Mexico vy. United States Trust Co., 172 U. 8. 171, 19 Sup. Ct. 128, 43 L. Ed. 407; Stuyvesant v.
Bodfish v. Fox, 23 Me
95, 39 Am. Dec. 611.
BODY OF AN INSTRUMENT. ‘The
main and operative part; the substantive provisions, as distinguished from the recitals, title, jurat, ete. :
Boehme, 66 Kan
72, 71 Pac. 243, 97 Am. St.
BOIS, or BOYS
L. Fr. Wood; timber; brush.
BOLHAGIUM, or BOLDAGIUM
tle house or cottage. Blount.
Bomb
L.R. Bombay Law Reporter.
BON
Fr. In old French law. A royat order or check on the treasury, invented by Francis I. Bon pour mille Uvres, good for A thousand livres. Step. Lect. 387.
BONA
public corporation invested with powers and duties of government. It is often used, in a rather loose way, to designate the state or Nation or sovereign power, or the government of a county or municipality, without disti...
BOND
value, or it may mean a holder for real value. snout notice of any fraud, etc. Byles, Bills, kmowledgment of being bound for money, conditioned to be void on the performance of any duty, or the occurrence of anything th...
BONDED WAREHOUSE. See WAt8E
HOUSE SyYstEeM. BONDSMAN. A surety; one who has entered into a bond as surety. The word seems to apply especially to the sureties upon the bonds of officers, trustees, etc., while bait? should be reserved for the suretie...
Bonelli v. Blakemore, 66 Miss
136, 5 South. 228, 14 Am. St. Rep. 550; Providence Tool Co. v. Engine Co., 9 R. I. 571. A continuous easement is sometimes termed an “apparent” easement, and defined as one depending on some artificial structure upon...
BONES GENTS
L. Fr. In old English law. Good men, (of the jury.)
BONIFICATION
BONDAGE. Slavery; involuntary per- Sonal servitude; captivity. In old English law, villenage, villein tenure. 2 Bl. Comm. 92. 7 7
BONITARIAN OWNERSHIP
be exported and sold in the foreign market on the same terms as if it had not been taxed. U. S. v. Passavant, 169 U. S. 16, 18
BONITARIAN OWNERSHIP. In Ro
man law. A species of ecquitable title to things, as distinguished from a title acquired according to the strict forms of the municipal law; the property of a Roman citizen in a subject capable of quiritary property, acq...
BOO
the better local management of the Eaglish metropolis. They have the care and management of all grounds and gardens dedicated to the use of the inhabitants In the metropolis; also the superintendence of the drainage; ale...
BOOK
1. A general designation applied to any literary composition which is printed, but appropriately to a printed composition bound in a volume. Scoville v. Toland, 21 Fed. Cas. 864. script entries; such as a merchant’s a...
Book. Fitzh. Nat. Brev
14. 56; Baker vy. Wich, 1 Salk. 56. Tenure in ancient demesne may be leaded in abatement to an action of ejectment. ust v. Roe. 2 Burr. 1046. Also a species of copyhold, which differs, however, from common copyholds in c...
BOOM
273; Wilson y. Wilson, 6 N. J. Law, 96; Se eurity Co. v. Graybeal, 85 Iowa, 543, 52 N. W. ee af St. Rep. 311; Colbert v. Piercy, pay N. 'e 'e
Booth v. Terrell, 16 Ga
25; Payne v. Gardiner, 20 N. Y. 167.
BORES
L. Lat. The statute 35 Edw. I. § 2, prohibiting rectors, 4 e., parsons, from cutting down the trees in church-yards. In
BORGH OF HAMHALD
BORD-BRIGOCH. In Saxon law. A breach or violation of suretyship; pledgebreach, or Dreach of mutual fidelity.
BORIPTUM
Lat. A _ writing; thing written. Fileta, 1. 2, c. 60, § 25.
BOROUGH
' BOROUGH. In English law. A town, a walled town. Co. Litt. 1083. A town of note or importance; a fortified town. Cowell. An ancient town. Litt. 164. A corporate town that is not a city. Cowell. An ancient town. Corporat...
Bose, 78 Ga
413, 3 S. E. 309, 6 Am. St. Rep. ie i plaasley v. Clelland, 41 W. Va. 234,
Boston, 158 Mass
461, 3 33 N. E. 580; Com. v..
Both forestalling and engrossing may enter
into the manipulation of what is now called a “‘corner.’
BOTTOMR}
for a definite term, and pledges the ship ‘(or the keel or bottom of the ship, pars pro toto) as a security for its repayment, with maritime or extraordinary interest on account of the marine risks to be borne by the l...
BOTTOMRY
row a book or any other thing te be returned again. But it is evident that where money is borrowed, the identical money loaned is not to be returned, because, if this were eo, the borrower would derive no benefit from th...
BOUCHE
Fr. The mouth. An allowance of provision. Avotr bouche A court; to have an allowance at court; to be in ordinary at court; to have meat and drink scotfree there. Blount; Cowell.
BOUCHE OF OOURT, or BUDGE OF
COURT. A certain allowance of provision from the king to his knights and. servants, who attended him on any military expedition.
BOUNDARY
agent of each, and thereby they ‘are respectively bound, if he has not exceeded his authority. Saladin v. Mitchell, 45 Til. 88; tions made by man) which may serve to define and fix one or more of the lines inclosing a...
Bourgeois, Miss
663. 45 Am. Rep. 420; So- ~nora v. Curtin, 187 Cal. 583, 70 Pac. 674;
Boutiller v. The Milwaukee; 8 Minn
105, (Gil. 80, 81.) .
Bouv. Inst
pn. 1923. no. 2001. no. 4206—Pretermitted defense. One which was available to a: party no. 1928. no. A representation of some fact or circumstance, calculated to mislead, which is not true. Com. v. Drew, 19 no. 12...
Bow. Bowler & Bowers, vols
2, 3, United States Comptroller’s Decisions.
Bowen v. Insurance Co., 20 Pick
(Mass.) 276, $2 Am. Dec. 213; U. S. v. Symonds, 120 U.
Bowersox, 100 Pa
438, 45 Am. Rep. 387; Van Riper v. Poppenhausen, 48 N. Y. 75;
BOYCOT1
of poor ecclesiastical livings. Wharton. Miltary moet land. Land granted by various laws of the United States, by way of bounty, to soldiers for services rendered in the army; being given in lieu of a money payment.
BOZERO
927, 6 8. B. 620, 10 Am. St. Rep. 805; Oxley
Brac
(or Bract. or Bracton). Bracton de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Anglise.
Brackenridge v. Baltzell, 1 Ind
335; Leonard v. U. S., 18 Ct. Cl. 385; Picker v. Fitzelle, 28 App. Div. 519, 51 N. Y. Supp. 205.
Bract
1120; 3 Bl. Comm. 193, 194. fol. 680; Fileta, lib. 6, c 2, § 19. fol. 680; Fieta, lib. 6, c. 2; § 17. fol. “This could only be brought for the penalty attached to the offense, and not to recover the thing stolen i...
Bradford, 2 Dall
268, 1 L. Ed. 375; Lathrop v. Dunlop, 4 Hun (N. Y.) 215; Carter v.
Bradley v. State, 31 Ind
505; Allen v. State, 111 Ala. 80, 20 South, 494; State v. Rover, 11
Bradley, 186 Ill
510, 58 N. E. 221; Warner
Bradley, 58 Vt
403, 5 Atl. 189, 56 Am. Rep 563; Cooper v. Fibbs, L. R. 2 H. L. 149;
BRAHMIN, BRAHMAN, or BRAMIN
In Hindu law. <A divine; a priest; the first Hindu caste.