Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Defending an action on grounds of infancy or limitations.

Commonalty or yeomanry, in contradistinction to baronage.—Wharton.

An inferior knight; a squire.

A sum paid by the vendor of stock to postpone the date of delivery.

A poacher’s carrying of game wrongfully killed.

The carrying of the stolen goods with him by a thief.

An indemnity bond.

Same as Back-bond.

Indorsement.

Such indorsement as to permit its service in another county.

The backyard of a house.

Water backed up by obstruction of a stream.

A divining rod; a rod used in making livery of seisin.

Any act or fact tending to create suspicion of deceit. See 69 Mich. 5, 37 N. W. 37.

A hawker; a huckster.

A blackmailing trick.

A bag or purse.—Black.

Articles of clothing, attire and personal effects carried by a traveller. See Ann. Cas. 1912C, 627.

A chest.

The sureties of one bound to appear at court; to become such surety; money or a bond given to secure such appearance. See 37 Tenn. 623.

Bail.

A proceeding in which the defendant may be released for arrest on bail.

Process under which an officer may take bail in lieu of an arrest and imprisonment.

Bail given to release one arrested on final process, e. g., execution.

Bail given to release one arrested on mesne process, e. g., attachment.

A bond given to secure the appearance of one at court.

One entrusted with the custody of goods.

A Scotch alderman, bailiff or magistrate.

A sheriff’s deputy-; a keeper.

A deputy bailiff.

Officers acting as sheriffs within privileged jurisdictions where the king’s writ could at that time not be executed by the sheriff.—Spelman.

Officers appointed over hundreds by sheriffs, to collect fines, summon juries, attend judges, and execute writs and processes. See 1 Bl. Comm. 345.

Stewards appointed by lords of manors.

Bailiwick, which see.

The jurisdiction of a sheriff or bailiff.

In Canadian Law. The unpaid vendor of real estate Bouvier Law Dictionary.

One to whom judicial authority was assigned or delivered by a superior.

The delivery or contract whereby goods are entrusted to another. See 136 Am. St. Rep. 214; also 7 L. R. A. 529.

One who makes a bailment.

The certificate evidencing the fact that one has become bail for another. See 7 Johns. (N. Y.) 145.

(Scotch) A bankrupt.

(Scotch) Children.

(Scotch) A third of a decedent’s estate if there was a widow, half if not.

A whale. See 1 Bl. Comm. 222.

The remainder due a party after settling accounts with another. See 156 N. Y. 529, 51 N. E. 285.

A statement showing the financial condition of a business. See 92 Cal. 580, 28 Pac. 779.

(Spanish) Abandoned public land.

A tutor; a teacher; a guardian.

A writ to oust a bailiff from office.

A tax on ships for taking ballast.

A ticket or paper used in voting; to vote at an election. See 5 Ann. Cas. 861.

Thieves of clothing at the public baths.

A public edict or proclamation.

The right by which the lord made his vassals grind at his mill, bake at his oven, etc.

A bench; a meeting of all the judges.

Banc.

The queen’s bench.

The king’s bench court.

The upper bench. Once the name of the king’s bench.

(Scotch) A call to arms.

An outlaw.

Advocates in the court of common pleas.

A malefactor.

Deodands.

Removal from the country as a punishment for crime.

Same as banc, which see; an institution where money is deposited and loaned. See 49 Am. St. Rep. 76; also 21 L. Ed. (U. S.) 618.

Negotiable paper which a bank will receive as cash. See Ann. Cas. 1913C, 1255.

The funds of a bank from which a depositor may draw. See 51 N. H. 78.

Demand notes of a bank payable to bearer.

An instrument by which a depositor seeks to withdraw funds from the bank. See 21 L. R. A. (N. S.) 703.

One having a place where deposits are received and paid out on checks and where money is loaned on security. See 23 L. Ed-(U. S.) 421.

A bankrupt.

A bank note issued by a private, unincorporated bank.

The business conducted by a banker. See 18 Ann. Cas. 829.

The promissory demand note of a bank payable to bearer.

A bank authorized to issue bank notes. See 87 Pa. 468, 30 Am. Rep. 378.

One who has committed an act of bankruptcy. See 5 Hill (N. Y), 317.

The condition of one adjudged a bankrupt.

The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits of a town or city.—Cent. Diet.

Same as Banleuca.

The title of a knight ranking next after a baron. See 1 Bl. Comm. 403.

Bans of matrimony.

An outlaw; one banished.

Published notice of an intended marriage.

A ban.

A proclamation.

An obstruction to an action or suit; a railway inclosing the officers of a court; the place in court occupied by a prisoner on trial; those who are admitted to practice law; a cour

(Spanish) A kept mistress; an inferior wife.

A society composed of members of the bar.

To quarrel.

One has committed barratry who sells justice for money.

Money paid to support a watch tower.—Bouvier Law Dictionary.

One without conditions.

A quarrelsome litigation.

One whose sole function is to hold title to trust property.

A sheriff’s fee due upon a prisoners acquittal.

A contract or agreement to buy on one side and sell on the other. See 5 Mass. 358, 4 Am. Dec. 68.

A bargain or contract whereby land is transferred without livery of seisin. See 110 U. S. 471, 28 L. Ed. 198, 4 Sup. Ct. Rep. 210.

The grantee or vendee in a bargain and sale.

The grantor or vendor in a bargain and sale.