A Dictionary of Law

The offense committed by one who gives or promises or offers money or any valuable inducement to an elector, in order to corruptly induce the jatter to vote in a particular way or

One that pilfers other men 3 goods; a thief.

An engine by which walla were beaten down. Blount.

In England. A house of correction.

In the location of a private way laid out by the selectmen, and accepted by the town, a description of it asa “bridle road” does not confine the right of way toa particular class o

PAPAL. In ecclesiastical law. The pope's letter upon matters of discipline.

In practice. A methodical epitome of all the patents, conveyances, incumbrances, liens, court proceed- Ings, and other matters affecting the title to acertain portion of real estat

An Scotch law. <A writ. 1 Kames, Eq. 146.

In old European law. Strife, contention, litigation, controversy.

In Saxon and old English law. A tribute or contribution towards the repairing of bridges.

Pierre Jacques. Nouveau dictionaire civil et canonique de droit et de pratique. 1 vol. 4to. Paris, 1707.

The act of depositing money in the custody of a court or of its clerk or marshal, for the

In French maritime law. Literally, breaking; wreck. Distinguished from naufrage, (q. 0.)

Barnabas. De verborum quae ad jus civile pertinent significatione. Last Edn. 1 vol. folio. Leyden, 1559. [Other editions, 1578, 1683, 1697, 1721.] The same. 6th Edn. By J. G. Heine

In English law. A contract by which A. lends B. £1,009 on good security, and it is agreed that £509, together with interest, shall be paid at a lime stated; and, as to the other £5

The territory on the north-west coast of North America, once known by the designation oi “New Caledonia.” Its government is provided for by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 99, Vancouver Island is

The wages, commission, or pay of a broker, (also called “brokerage.” ) Also the avocation or business of a broker.

BROCATOR. In old Engiish and Seotch law. A broker; a middleman between buyer and seller; the agent of both transacting parties. Bell; Cowell.

In old English law. A wood, a thicket or covert of bushes and brushwood. Cowell; Blount.

In maritime law. That spacein asbip whichis not filled by her cargo. H

An agent employed to make bargains and contracts between obher persons, in matters of trade, commerce, or nayigation, for a compensation commonly called “brokerage.” Story, Ag. § 2

The wages or cominissions of a broker; also, his business or occupation,

Bruised, or injured with blows, wounds, or othercasualty. Cowell.

One person is a brother “of the whole blood” to another, the former being a male, when both are born from the same father and mother. He is a brother “of the half blood” to that ot

A wife's brother or a sister's husband. There is not any relationship, but only affinity, between broth. ers-in-law.

In old English law. 4 heath ground; ground where heath grows. Spelman.

See Briapore,

In old English law. A wood or grove; athicket or cluinp of trees in a park or forest. Cowell.

In medical jurisprudence, A contusion; an injury upon the iesh of a person with a blunt or heavy instrument, with out solution of continuity, or without breaking the skin.

In old Swedish law. The child of a woman conceiving after a rape, which was made legitimate. Literally, the child of a struggle. Burrill. ‘

Anempiy noise; an empty threat.

An extravagant or unsubstantial project for extensive operations in business or commerce, generally founded on a ficti.ious ur exaggerated prospectus, to ensnare unwary investors.

A toil totakedeer. 4 Inst. 806.

A name given in England to the statement annually presented to parliament by the chancellor of the exchequer, containing the estimates of the national revenue aud expenditure.

A fine imposed on the community of a town, for a breach of the peace, etc.

Acarnal copulation against nature; and this is either by the confusion of species,—that is to say, a man or a woman with a brute beast,—or of sexes, as a man with a man, or man unn

A structure or edifice erected by the hand of man, composed of natural materials, as stone or woou, and intended for use Or convenience.

A lease of land for a long term of years, usually 99, ata rent called a “ground rent,” the lessee coyenanting to ercet certain edifices thereon according to specification, and to m

An association in which the subscriptions of the members form a capital stock or fund out of which advances may be made to members desiring them, on mortgage security.

In theancient Hebrew chronology, the eighth month of the ecclesiastical, and the second of the civil, year. It has since been called “Dfarshevan,” and answers to our October.

Unbroken packages. Merchandise which is neither counted, weighed, nor measured,: Bulk is said of that which is neither counted, weighed, nor measured. A sale by the bulk is the sal

In ecelesiastical law. An instrument granted by the pope of Rome, and sealed wilh a seal of lead, containing some decree, commandment, or other public act, emanating from the ponti

A seal used by the Roman emperors, during the lower empire; and which was of four kinds,—gold, silver, wax, and ‘lead.

In Franee, the official sheet which publishes the laws and decrees; this publication constitutes the promulgation of the law or decree.

Gold and silver intended to be coined. The term is usually applied to a quantity of these metals ready for the mint, but as yet lying in bars, plates, lumps, or other masses; but i

Inold Englishlaw. A bound, boundary, border, or limit, (terménus, limes.)

A country-house in the East Indies.

(Lat. ents probandi.) In the law of evidence. The necessity or duty of affirmatively proving a fact or facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause. The term

An office for the transaction of business. A name given to the several departments of the executive or administrative branch of government, or to their larger subdivisions.

A system in which the business of government is carried on in departments, each under the control of a ehief, in contradistinction from a system in which the officers of government

A name anciently given to a idwelling-house in a borough town. Blount.

A tenure by which lands in royal boroughs in Scotland were held of thesovereign. The service was watching and warding, and was done by the burgesses within the territory of the bor

In English law. One of the three species of free socage holdings; a tenure whereby houses and lands which were formerly the site of houses, inan ancient borough, are held of some l

One who breaks into houses or inclosed places, as distinguished from one who committed robbery in the open country. Spehnan.

In old English law. A term applied to a contribution towards the repair of castles or walls of defense, or of a borough.

In old Engtish Jaw. Inhabitants ofa burgus or borough; burgesses. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 6, § 10.

A word used in Domesday, signifying # breach of the peace in a town. Jacok,

In English law. An inhabitant or freeman of a borough or town; a person duly and legally admitted a member of a municipal corporation. Spelman; 8 An elector or voter; a person lega

A roll, required by the St.5 & 6 Wm. IV. ¢. 76, to be kept in corporate towns or boroughs, of the names of burgesses entitled to certain new rights conferred by that act.

See Borovar

Borough Ene glish, (g. v.)

Yearly payments to the crown of Sevtland, introduced by Mal colm IlI., and resembling the English feefarm rents.

In Saxonlaw. A court of justice held semi-annually by the bishop or lord in a burg, which the thanea were bound to attend without summons,

Lat. Alderman of a city or berough, from which the modern ottice of alderman has been derived. T, Raym. 435, 437.

One who commits burglary. One who breaks into a dwelling-house in the night-time with intent to commit a felony.

In pleading, A technical word whieh must be introduced into an indictment for burglary at common law.

Lat. (Burgiancusly.} In old criminal pleading. A necessary word in indictments for burglary.

In criminal law. The breaking and entering the house of another in the night-time, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felony be actually committed or not. 38 Inst.

The title given in Germany to the chief executive officer of a borough, town, or city; corresponding to our “mayor.”

See Lex Bur-

A burgess, (¢. 0.)

Sepulture; the act of interring dead human bodies.

In Seotchlaw. Laws made by neighbors elected by common consent in the burlaw courts. Skene.

Richard and John. <A new law dictionary, intended for general use as well as for gentlemen of the profession, 2Z vols. 8vo. London, 1792.

In old English criminal law, laymen, upon being accorded the benetit of clergy, were burned with a hot iron in the brawn of the left thumb, in order that, being thus marked, they c

A purse.

A treasurer of a college.

Theexchequer of collegiata or canventual bodies; or the place of receiving, paying, and accounting by the bursars. Also stipendiary scholars, who live upon the burse, fund, or join

In English law. The ancient punishment of sodomites, and those who contracted with Jews. Fleta, Jib. 1, c. 27, § 3.

<A place set apart for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

In Saxon and old English law. Seamen or marines. Spelman.

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts. But the dimensions of a bushel, and the weight of a bushel of grain, ete., vary in the different states i

Those hours of the day during which, in a given community, commercial, banking, professional, public, or other kinds of business are ordinarily carried on. This phrase is declared

A term used in the old English taw, to designate a large and clumsily constructed ship.

A privilege formerly ale lowed to the king’s butler, to take a certain part of every cask of wine imported by an alien,

In English law. <A law for the heir to punish waste in the life of the ancestor, “Though it be on record in the parliament book of Edward L., yet it never was a statute, nor ever s

A measure of liquid capacity, equal to one hundred and eight gallons; also & measure of land.

The bounding lines of land at the end; abuitals, which see.

A phrase sometimes used in conveyancing, to introduce the bouridaries of lands. See Burrs anD Bounns.

In old English law. Short pieces of land left unplowed at the ends of fields, where the plow was turned about, (otherwise called “headlands,”) as sidelings were similar unplowed pi

A phrase used in conveyancing, to describe the end lines or elreumscribing lines of a certain piece of land. The phrase “metes and bounds” has the same meaning.

A local term in the north of England, for the associate or deputy of another; also of things used in common.

To acquire the ownership of property by giving an accepted price ur consideration therefor; or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase, Wel

To purchase, at publie sale, property which is one’s own or which one has caused or procured to be sold.

Im practice. A writ carried into effect by the oflicer to whom itis directed. The term “executed,” applied

By their or its own force. 2 Kent, Comm. 457.

That which is done, given, or effected outside the course of regular judicial proceedings; not founded upon, or unconnected with, the action of a court of law; as extrajudicial evi

In the law relating to sales by auction, this term is equivalent to “pulling.” The practice consists in making fictitious bids for the property, under a seeret arrangement with the

In Hindu law. A deed of mortgage or conditional sale.

In conveyancing. A term used to indicate that the quantity of land ag stated is estimated only, not exactly measured; has the same meaning and effect as the phrase “more or less.”