Bissextus

I. In old English law. sextile; Year. law. A billet, bill or memorandum of under the statute of Westminster 2, the sheriff. law. Bullion. obligation, particularly by covenant or or by judgment or decree, or by wife, partner, agent or accomplice. as an apprentice. Bind oyer: to put witness or as a defendant, or to keep the parts; divided in two. Formerly apthere were -two parties and of which parts, v. Tripartite; Quadripartite. halbert; a pole-ax; a Jeddart staff. Scots law. Laws made by country rural affairs, v. Burlaws. English law. The cap or coif of a cap of linen or silk fitting close to the badge of distinction of a serjeant, alsitting in the king's court, and never Serjeants, so as entirely to uncover of royalty itself. baked; applied to bread called simenel bona fldes non patitur; et in satisamplius fieri quam seniel factum the same thing to be demanded [for a debt or demand] it is not once. Bis petitum: a thing twice etc.; Nemo debet bis, etc. An axe or bill fine imposed for not repairing banks, chief of the clergy within a diocese archbishop. He is called the archbishop's the common law, the ordinary. The no such ofl Scer. a bishop has jurisdiction; the office day is added to the month of Februin accord with the solar year; leap The added day of a leap year. v. Bisdifferent parcels of land. public accusation, injury to In English law. Black act: the ish for certain outrages called from the fact that the with faces blacked. Black of admiralty law of high large, a view of the crimes and occasional ordinances and maritime torts, injuries reign of Edward IIL, but book of the Excheqaer: an a miscellaneous collection number of hides of land in It is commonly attributed to Hereford: an old record, early writers. Black cap: when he is about to pass arising out of the ancient of great solemnity, or out of son in holy orders) to lay were, by covering the tonsure, not impose the death penalty of a condemned person who V. Gown. Blackmail: a rent inhabitants of some of the border chieftains or rievers the Scottish border rievers reserved in work, gi-ain, tinction to those which which were termed white In Scots law. Black acts: the of James VI. down to 1586 stance of their being printed

Lat. [from bis, twice, and sextus, sixth.] In old English law. The added, repeated or increasing day (dies excrescens) of a leap year; in the Roman calendar, the sixth day before the calends of March, twice computed. It was made up of the odd hours and minutes over 365 days, which had been disregarded in the three preceding years, in addition to those of the fourth year, (ex minutiis quatuor annorum.) Bract. fol. 359 b.