A Dictionary of Law

When an importer of goods is lgnorant of their exact quantity or quality, so that he cannot make a perfect entry of them, he may give to the custems officera written deseription of

In Englishlaw. A kind of license granted at the cusiom-house to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for their voyage, custom free. Jacob.

In English law. A license granted at the custom-house to # merchant, to suffer him to trade from one English port to another, without paying custom. Cowell.

Ina merchant’s accounts, all bills which he has accepted, and promissory notes which he has mude, are called “bills payable,” and are entered in a ledger account under that name, a

In contracts. A written obligation by which a debter acknowledges himself indebted in a certain sum, and binds himself fur the payment thereof, in a larger sum, called a “penilty.”

A bill invoking the aid of equity “because he fears,” that is, because the complainant apprehends an injury to his property rights or interests, from ‘he fault or neglect of anothe

Inawmerchant’s accounts, all notes, drafts, checks, etc., payable to him, or of which he is to receive the proceeds at a future date, are called “bills receivable,” and are entered

In equity practice. One brought to avoid or suspend a decree under special circumstances, BILL TO TAKE TESTIMONY DE

Pertaining to, or consisting of, two metals used a3 mouey at a fixed relative value.

The legalized use of two metals in the currency of 4 country at a fixed relative value.

The act by whicha court or magistrate requires a person to enter into a recognizance or furnish bail to appear for trial, to keep the peace, to attend as a witness, ete.

To place one under a legal obligation to serve another; as to bind out an apprentice.

In English law. The oldesl; the first-born. Spelman.

Consisting of, or divisible into, two parts. A term in conveyancing descriptive of an instrument in two parts, and exceuted by both parties,

BIRRETUS. A cap or eoif used formerly in England by judges and serjeants ab law. Spelman.

The act of being born or wholly brought into separate existence,

The father of one’s grand father or grandmother.

In old English law. A conversion of wood grounds into arable or pasture; an assarting. Cowell. See AssaRT.

An English ecclesiastical dignitary, being the chief of the clergy within his diocese, subject to the archbishop of the provinces in which his diocese is situated, Most of thie bis

In ecclesiasticallaw. The diocese of a bishop, or the circuit in which he has Jurisdiction; the oflice of a bishop. 1 Bl. Comm. 377-382.

In English law. An ecclesiastical court, held in the cathedral of each diocese, the judge whereof is the bishop's chancellor, who judges by the civil canon law; and, if the diocese

The day which is added every fourth year to the month of February, in order to make the year agree with the course of the sun. Leap year, consisting of 366 days, and happening ever

The statute 9 Geo. I.ca 22, so called because it was occasioned by the outrages committed by persons with their faces blacked or otherwise disguised, who appeared in Epping Forest,

Old Scotch statutes passed in the reigns of the Stuarts and down tothe year 1586 or 1587, so called because printed in black letter. Bell.

In Engiish law. An old record frequently referred to by Cowell and other early writers. BLACK BOOK OF THE ADMIRAL- TY. A book of the highest authority in admiralty matters, general

Itis a vulgar error that the head-dress worn by the judge in pronouncing the sentence of death is assumed as an emblem of thesentence. Itis part of the judicial full dress, and is

In English law. Heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, AS grouse,

A listof persons marked out for special avoidance, antagonism, or enmity on the part of those who prepare the list or those among whom it is intended to circulate; as where a trade

1. In one of its original meanings, this term denoted a tribute paid by English dwellers along the Scottish border to influential chieftains of Scotland, as a condition of securing

A closed wagon or van in which prisoners are carried to and from the jail, or between the court and the jail.

In old English law. Kents reserved in work, grain, provisions, or baser money, in contradistinction to those which were reserved in white money or sil ver, which were termed “white

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Asubvassal, who held ward of the king’s vassal. “BLACKLEG.” “The word ‘blackleg’ has been used long enough to be understood, not only by experts in slang, but by the public at larg

Whiterent; arent BLASPHEMY. In Englishlaw. Blas. reserved, payable in silver. phemy is the offense of speaking matter re

Also called the “common concerning God calculated and designed to impair bar.” The name of a plea in bar which in and destroy the reverence, respect, and confidencs an action of tr

BLENCH HOLDING. Ses “blank,” because a blank or space is left BLANCH Ho LpING. over it for the insertion of the name of the indorsee, or of any subsequent holder. Oth- BLENDED FUND

One who is deprived of the sense or faculty of sight.

In old English law. Boughs broken down from trees and thrown in a way where deer are likely to pass. Jacob.

In international law. A marine investment or beleaguering of a town or harbor. A sort of circumvallation round a place by which all foreign connection and correspondence is, as far

Kindred; consanguinity; family relationship; relation by descent from a common ancestor. One person is “of the blood” of another when they are related by lineal descent or collater

A weregild, or pe- ¢cuniary mulct paid by a slayer to the relatives of his victim. Also used, in a popular sense, as descriptive of money paid by way of reward for the apprehension

<Anamercement for bloadshed. Cowell. The privilege of taking such amercemenis. Skene. A privilege or exemption from paying a

Thomas. A law dictionary and glossary, interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute, aucient or modern, laws. 3d Edn. 1 vol

In the laws of the United States on the subject of merchant shipping, the recording and certification of vessels employed in coastwise or inland navigation; as distinguished from t

An organized and systematic collection of rules of jurisprudence; as, particularly, the body of the eivil law, or corpus juris civilis.;;

A term applied to a corporation, which is usually designaied as a “hody corporate and politic.” The term is particularly appropriate to a public corporation invested with powers an

Water arising from a salt well belonying toa person who is not the owner of the soil,

or BOYS. Wood; timber; brush.

or BOLDAGIUM. A little house or cottage, Blount.

The desertion by one or more persons from the political party to which he or they belong; the permanent withdrawal before adjournment of a portion of the delevaies to a polilical c

In English practice. A term formerly used in the English inna of court, but more particularly at Gray’s Inn, signifying the private arguing of cases, as distinguished from mvoting,

Regulations passed for the presidency of Bombay, and the territories subordinate thereto. They were passed by the governors in council of Bombay until the yeur 1334, when the power

Fr. Inold Frenchlaw. A royal osder or check on the treasury, invented by Francis I. Bon pour mille iferes, good for a theusand livres. Step. Lect. 387. In modern law. The name of a

Goods confiseated or forfeited to the imperial jise or treasury. 1 5B). Comm. 299. BOW4 ET CATALLA, Goods and chattels. Movable property. This expression includes all personal thin

In practice. In default of the representatives and creditors to administer to the estate of an intestate, the officer entitled to grant letters of administration may grant, to such

A purchaser in good faith. One who either was ignorant that the thing he bought belonged toanother or supposed that the seller had a right tosellit. Dig. 50, 16, 109. See Id. 6, 2,

In English law. Goods of felons; the goods of one convicted of felony. 5 Coke, 110.

In or with good faith; honestly, openly, and sincerely; without deceit or fraud. Truly; actually; without simulation or pretense. Innocently; in the attitude of trust and confidenc

In the civil law. Of good faith; in goud faith. This is a more frequent form than bone fide.

A possessor in good faith. One who believes that no other person has a better right to the possession than himself. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 243, Bong fidei possessor in id tantum quod

Good faith; Integrity of dealing; honesty; sincerity; the opposite of mula fides and of dolus mals. Bona fides exigit ut quod convenit’ fiat. Good faith demands that what is agreed

Goods forfeited.

In English law. Goods of fugitives; the proper goods of him who ilies for felony. 5 Coke, 1090.

Good abearance or behavior,

In the Roman law. By mutual consent; voluntarily. A term applied to a species of divorce where the parties separated by mutual consent; or where the parties renounced their marital

Good memory. Generally used in the phrase sane mentis et bone memori@, of sound mind and zood memory, as descriptive of the mental capac-; ity of a testator.

In the civii law. Movables. Those things which move themselves or can be transported from one place to another, and not permanently attached to a farm, heritage, or building.

In mining parlance, the widening out of a vein of silver, suddenly, and extraordinarily; hence any sudden, unexpected prosperily in mining. Webster,

In English probate law. Notable goods; property worthy of notice, or of suilicient value to be accounted for, that is, amounting to £5. Where a decedent leaves goods of suificient

In the Scotch law. An assize or jury of good neighbors. Hell.

Vacant, unclaimed, or stray goods. Those things in which nobody claims a property, and which belong to the crown, by virtue of its prerogative. 1 Bl, Comm. 298.

In English law, Waived gools; goods stolen and waived, that is, thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear of being apprehended, or to faeilitute his escape; and which go to

A contract by specialty to pay a certain sum of money; being a deed or instrument under seal, by which the maker or obligor promises, and thereto binds himself, his heirs, executor

v. To give bond for, as for duties on goods; to secure payment of duties, by giving bond. Bonded, secured by lond. Bonded goods are those for the duties on which bonds are given. B

Slavery; involuntary personal servitude; captivity. In old English law, Villenage, villein tenure. 2 Bl. Comm. 92.

A species of security, consisting of a bond conditioned for the repayment of a loan of money, and a mortgage of realty to secure the performance of the stipulations of the bond.

A creditor whose debt is secured by a bond.

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A surety; one who has entered into a bond as surety. The word seems to apply especially to the sureties upon the bonds of officers, trustees, etc., while dail should be reserved fo

In English law. Copyholders and customary tenants are some-

Fr. In old English law. Good men, (of the jury.) D

Incivil and Scotch law. Those contracts in which equity may interpose to correct inequalities, and to adjust all matters according to the plain intention of the parties. 1 Kames, E

In old European law. Good men; a name given in early European jurisprudence to the tenants of the lord, who judged each other in the lord’s E courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 349. Boni judicis

In the civil law. To make a transfer or surrender of property, aa a debtor did to his creditors, Cod. 7, 71.

A writ addressed to the sheriff, when a writ of error has been brought, commanding that the person against whom judgment has been obtained be not suffered to remove his goods till

In Roman law. <A species of equitable title to things, as distinguished from a title acquired according to the strict forms of the municipal law; the property of a Roman citizen in

A special writ of jail delivery, which formerly issued of course for each particular prisoner. 4 Bl. Comm. 270. Bonum defendentis ex integra causa; malum ex quolibet defectu. The s

1. A general designation applied to any literary composition which is printed, but appropriately to a printed composition bound in a volume. 2. A bound volume consisting of sheets

In Pennsylvania practice. The act of 28th March, 1835, § 2, in using the words, “book debt” and “book entries,” refers to their usual signification, which includes goods sold and d

In English law. Land, alsocalled “charter-land,” which was held by deed under certain rents and free services, and differed in nothing from free socage land, 2 Bl. Comm. 90.

A term applied to the records of a surrogate's court. 8 East, 187.

In Scotch law. The original records of criminal trials in the court of justiciary.

An account or enumeration of the duties or tariffs author. ized by parliament. 1 Bl. Comm. 316.

In Scotch law. An account which the directors of the chancery kept to enter all non-entry and re lief duties payable by heirs who take precepts from chancery.

The books in which merchants, traders, and business men generally keep their accounts.

An inclosure formed upon the surface of a stream or olber body of water, by means of piers and a chain of spars, for the purpose of collecting or storing logs or timber,

A company formed for the purpose of improving streams for the floating of logs, by means of booms and other contrivances, and for the purpose of running, driving, booming, and raft

In English law. Certain days in the year (sometimes called “dre days”) on which tenants in copyhold were

or BOTE. An old Saxon word, equivalent to “estovers.”

or BOTING, CORN. Certain rent corn, anciently so called. Cowell.