Bad

Vicious, evil, wanting in good qualities: the reverse of good. See Riddell v. Thayer, 127 Mass. 487; Tobias v. Harland, 4 Wend. (N. Y.) 537.

Substantially defective; inapt; not good. The technical word for unsoundness in pleading.

— Bad debt. Generally speaking, one which is uncollectible. But technically, by statute in some states, the word may have a more precise meaning. In Louisiana, bad debts are those which have been prescribed against (barred by limitations) and those due by bankrupts who bave uot surrendered any property to be divided among their creditors. Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 1048. In North Dakota, as applied to the management of banking associations, the term means all debts due to the association on which the interest is past due and unpaid for a period of six months, unless the same are well secured and in process of collection. Rev. Codes N. D. 1899, § 3240

— Bad faith. The opposite of "good fnith," generally implying or involving actual or constructive fraud, or a design to mislead or deceive another, or a neglect or refusal to fulfill some duty or some contractual obligation, not prompted by an honest mistake as to one's rights or duties, but by some interested or sinister motive. Hiigenberg v. Northup, 134 Ind. 92, 33 N. E. 786; Morton v. Immigration Ass'n, 79 Ala. 617; Coleman v. Billings, 89 111. 191; Lewis v. Holmes, 109 La. 1030, 34 South. 66, 61 L. It. A. 274 ; Harris v. Harris, 70 Pa. 174; Penn Mut. L. Ins. Co. v. Trust Co., 73 Fed. 653, 19 C. C. A. 316, 38 L. R. A. 33, 70; Insurance Co. v. Edwards, 74 Ga. 230.

— Bad title. One which conveys no property to the purchaser of the estate ; one which is so radically defective that it is not marketable, and hence such that a purchaser cannot be legally compelled to accept it. Heller v. Cohen, 15 Misc. Rep. 378, 36 N. Y. Supp. 668.

Materially defective, as a bad may mean unchaste. Bad^e. A mark, sign or token; an cumstance attending a transaction, instrument which raises or tends v. Adonques. law. A writ which lay whra was seised of lands in fee-simand a stranger entered on that heir of his inheritance. otherwise, v. Ailors.; a circuit, eyre or iter. law. A municipal council; charge of its police and finan- Formerly indorsed on the paper approval. B. K.: Bancus regis, or or Queen's Bench. The inicommonly used. backberynde, sax. Carrying on thing stolen on his back, or, hence, Hand habend; Open theft. condition in which an offender arrested, as being taken with the of trust. warrant: an indorsement by a issued by a justice,of another served where so indorsed; an ingovernment under an extradition staff, rod or wand, anciently used of seisin where there was no or wand, by erecting which on actions, he was anciently warned the return of the original writ. with in the duellum. Baculus stick, v. Baston; Fiat seypleading. As.applied to a woman indication. Badge of fraud: a ciror a clause or provision in an to raise a presumption of fraud Bag^gage. Whatever a traveler takes with him for his personal use or convenience, according to the habits or wants of the class to which he belongs, with reference to either the immediate necessities or the ultimate purpose of the journey: as, money in reasonable amount, jewelry, weapons, tools, etc., in addition to the clothing and other more usual things.

1. When applied to "character," the jury must say whether want of chastity or of honesty was imputed.* The charge of incontinency involved in the words " she is a bad, a loose, character," may be sufficiently averred by an innuendo without a colloquium. Such words of themselves impute incontinency. Whether 1 Wilcox V. Payne, 88 Pa. 157 (1878). ' Jones u Bobbins, 8 Gray, 348 (1857), Shaw, C. J. » 4 Bl. Com. 291. or not the charge is true the jury must decide,' See Character; Slander. 3. In pleading — materially defective; ill; not good: as, a bad plea, bad pleading, a bad count. Compare III, 2: Well, 2. When evidence has not been given on a bad count, a general verdict will be entered on such of the good counts as are supported by proof." See Usus, Utile per inutile, etc, 3. False, faulty: as, bad grammar, q. v. Bad faith. See Faith. Compare-MALUS.