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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A special plea which constitutes an in general, a law set in moor is made a bankrupt, debtor, involuntary where it is law. A space around cerdistinguished from other ground, A degree of honor next after king; otherwise next after outlaw. ■ The bans of matrimony. law. To proclaim; to deedict, decree or proclamaeither to court or to military bannum, or banner. To pro- To expel by a public procfrom a hannum or certain ter- Banishment; expulsion by a or putting to the ban. lato. Banished; outlawed. church on Sunday and during of parties to enter Jbto edict, statute or public ordilimit or precinct of a town; and appurtenances.

Banish- A tribute

A proclamamarriage in a church. An Bannum solvat: he shall proclamation. Bannus regis: voice of a herald, forbidding interfere either by motion or counter of a trader, or banker. counter: bankrupt, or in old answer to an action, so called court or jury, and where prisoners are brought for arraignment or sentence; usually designated by a material inclosure of some kind, to which the name of a bar may be given: in England, barristers, except a privileged few, sit and plead without the bar; hence, utter or outer barristers. The presence of the court, either actual or constructive: a case at bar is thus a case presently before the court, — a case under argument The members of the legal profession, collectively, called the bar, from the place which they usually occupy in court Bar fee: a fee formerly taken by the sheriff in England for every accused person acquitted.

Baraterinsr^tarator, barector, 1. 1.

In old English law

A barretor, q. v.