Blamed

blasmed, I, fr.

Infamous. Blackmail: extortion by threats, as of one's reputation, etc. statute of 9 Geo. I, c.

33, enacted to puncommitted near Walthara, in Hampshire; so acts were done by persons in disguise, or book of the admiralty: an old repository authority, containing the laws of Oleron at and offenses cognizable in the admiralty, and commentaries on matters of prize and contracts. It was compiled in the contains additions of later periods. Black old book in the Exchequer, containing of, charters, treaties, conventions, the several counties, esouages, and the like. Gervase of Tilbury. Black book of frequently referred to by Cowell and other a cap put on by the judge in England sentence of death, in virtue of a custom custom of covering the head on occasions the necessity for the judge (often a peraside the ecclesiastical character, as it since a person in holy orders could; a bag or sack placed over the head is about to be hanged. Black gown: or tribute formerly paid by the poorer northern counties of England to Scottish for protection from the depredations of or moss troopers. Black rents: rents provisions, or baser money, in contradiswere reserved in white money or silver, rents, v. Blanch ferme. acts of the five Jameses, of Mary, and or 1587. So called from the circumin black-letter. Corn or grain. Blada a solo separata: soil. Blada crescentia: growiijg gi-ain. swathes or straw. Blada nondum a solo severed from the soil. Blada vel alia cav. Bladum. law. A corn-monger; a meal-man or engrosser of corn or grain. law. Corn or grain; especially a growing smooth, as coin having no impression, and, hence, paid by weight and not by tale. Blanch ferme, fearme, farm or firm: white farm or rent; rent paid in silver, v. Albafirma; Blancus; Farm. Blanch holdini^. In Scots law. A tenure in which the vassal paid a small duty to the superior in full of all services, as an acknowledgment of his right, either in money, or in some other substance; as a penny, a pair of gilt spurs, a pound of wax or of pepper.