Battonier

In French and Canadian law, a member of the bar selected as the head of the bar. B'ATTURE (Fr. shoals, shallows). An elevation of the bed of a river under the surface of the water; but it is sometimes used to signify the same elevation when it has risen above the surface. Morgan v. Livingston, 6 Mart. (O. S.) 19, 216. See Municipality No. 2 v. Orleans Cotton Press, 18 La. 123, 36 Am. Dec. 624; Hollingsworth v. Chaffe, 33 La. Ann. 551. The term battures is applied principally to certain portions of the bed of the river Mississippi, which are left dry when the water Is low, and aro covered again, either in whole or in part, by the annual swells. If it rises high, to be susceptible of ownership it does not pass in a grant of the adjacent land; Producers' Oil Co. v. Hanszen, 132 La. 691, 61' South. 754. of lewd people of both sexes. State v. Evans, 27 N. C. 603. See House of III Fame.