Biennially

In a statute this term signifies not duration of time, but a period for the happening of an event; People v. Tremain, 9 Hun (N. Y.) 573. In most of the states legislative sessions occur biennially; that is, once in two years. BIENS (Fr. goods). Property of every description, except estates of freehold and inheritance. Sugd. Vend. 495; Co. Litt. 119 b; Dane, Abr. In the French law, this term includes all kinds of property, real and personal. Biens are divided into biens meubles, movable property; and biens immeubles, immovable property. The distinction between movable and immovable property is recognized by them, and gives rise, in the civil as well as in the common law, to many important distinctions as to rights and remedies. Story, Confl. Laws, § 13, note 1. Tons les biens means in French law "all the property, and must therefore be accepted as including both real and personal estate"; Lindsay v. Wilson, 103 Md. 252, 63 Atl. 566, 2 L. R. A. (N. S.) 408. In Eddy v. Davis, 35 Vt. 247, it was held that Mens, goods," includes both animate and inanimate movable property, citing Co. Litt. 118 b, to the effect that "Mens, bona," are words which include all chattels, as well real as personal, and adding: "In this sense the word goods is used in the ancient and well known form of the solemnization of matrimony contained in the Book of Common Prayer: * * * 'With all my worldly goods I thee endow.' " In biens, real estate is included "in the sense of the civilians and continental jurists"; Adams v. Akerlund, 168 111. 632, 48 N. E. 454; Sto. Confl. L. §§ 13, 146. alive at the same time or not. One who had married a widow. Used in ecclesiastical matters as a reason for denying benefit of the clergy. Termes de la Ley.