A Law Dictionary and Glossary

fr. Advocate; an advocate.

A making void, or of no effect; a state of being void or vacant, as, a benefice, when void of an incumbent; the evadjng or escaping from the legal effect of a pleading by alleging

averdupois, /»■. The name of the common system of weights in England and the United States, by which goods, other than precious stones and metals, and medicines, are weighed.

l.fr. and eng. In old JSnglinhlaw. The calling into court by a tenant of a person bound to him by warranty to defend the riglit or to yield him other lands.

advow. To acknowledge and justify in pleading, v. Avowry.

/. Jr. To avow, or acknowledge; to justify; to maintain. To "" challenge.

avowson, avowesoun, I. Jr. An advowson.

A pleading in replevin, by which the defendant avows, that is, acknowledges the taking complained of, where he took it in his own right, and sets forth the reason.

In old English law. An adulterer, v. Advowti~y.

In old English law. Adultery, v. Advowtry.

A tearing off, severing, or forcible disruption; the sudden removal of soil from one man's estate to another's, by the immediate and manifest power of a stream.

awayte. A waylaying, or lying in wait to do mischief.

The decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators, or an umpire, or a referee or referees.

awardum, I. I. In old English law. An award; the verdict of a jury.

A crop sown during the last year of tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration.

awroust, awernst, awrust, aworust, averust, I. Jr. In old English law. Doubt; uncertainty; ambiguity.

awme, awame. In old English law. A measure of Ehenishwine, or vessel containing forty gallons.

awenhine, sax. A domestic, v. Agenhine.

aydonk, aydonqes, Ifr. Then.

I. In the civil law. An averting or turning away. A term applied to a species of sale in gross or bulk.

ayel, aiel, aile, I. fr. In old English a man's, grandfather or grandmother ple on the day of his or her death, day, and abated, or dispossessed the

I. fr. Besides; elsewhere;

aire, o. so. In old Scots law. Eyre A.yrer, I. fr. To plough. A.yunta)uiento, sp. In Spanish-Amerioan thfe governing body of a town, having cial affairs. B. F. Bonum factum, a prop

bacberende, backberend, the back; a thief cauglit with the in possession, v. Furtmn manifestum;

Carrying on the back. A against vert and venison might be mainour or manner, v. Mainour.

In Scots law. A declaration

Indorsement Backing a justice of the peace of a warrant county, in order that it may be dorsement by a proper officer of treaty.

A yard at the back of a house.

dakrnni, dacra, /. I. In old English and Scots law. A daker, or dakir; a measure of certain commodities.

I. In old English law. A in the ceremony of making livery building on the land. A white stick the grounds of a defendant in real or summoned to appear in court at A baton, such as

Materially defective, as a bad may mean unchaste. Bad^e. A mark, sign or token; an cumstance attending a transaction, instrument which raises or tends v. Adonques. law. A writ whic

baile, bailie, fr., Z. fr. Delivery; livery; keeping, or custody; delivery and custody, which two ideas are comprehended in the modern sense of the word. Bail de la seisinc: livery

bayl. In old English law. To deliver, commit or intrust a thing to another; to deliver a person from arrest, or out of custody, to the keeping of other persons, on their undertakin

Safe keeping or protection; a delivery into safe keeping or protection; a delivery of a person arrested, out of the custody of the law, into the safe keeping or friendly custody of

bayler, bailler, I fr. In old English law. To bail; to deliver. V. Bailler.

Requiring, authorizing or admitting of bail; entitled to be bail. Bailable action: action in which a defend- Bailable offense: an offense for which the offender may be admitted to

A bond with a surety or sureties given to the sheriff, on the arrest of a defendant on mesne process in a civil action, in a penalty of double the sum indorsed on the writ, and wit

baylee. A person to whom a bailment is made. v. Bailment.

baillie. In Scots laiv. A municipal magistrate, corresponding with the English alderman. A bailiff; a ministerial of Scer to whom writs are directed for service.

baillif, l.fr. A bailiff; a ministerial officer, with duties similar to those of a sheriff; the judge of a com't; a municipal magistrate.

A person to whom authority, care, guardianship or jurisdiction is intrusted; an overseer or superintendent; a keeper; a sheriff's officer; a land steward; the chief magistrate of a

baillium, I. I. In old law. Protection; custody; bail. The office, authority or jurisdiction of a bailiff, v. Ballium.

/. I. In old law. A bailiwick, v. Bailiwidk; Baliva.

bailywike, Balliva, baliva, bailivia, balia, ballia, balivatus, I. I., Baillie, bailly, I. fr. The district or jurisdiction of a bailiff or sheriff. In the old law, a liberty or ex

bailer, bayler, I. fr. To deliver, commit or intrust; to lease; to lend; the indorsement made on a bill by the clerk of tlje house of commons when it has passed the house and is to

fr. A person to whom a judicial authority and jurisdiction were assigned or delivered by a superior.

A delivery of a thing of a personal nature by one person to another to be held according to the purpose of the delivery, and to be returned or delivered over when that purpose is a

The party who bails or delivers goods to another upon the contract of bailment, v. Bailment.

A formal entry or memorandum of the recognizance or undertaking of special bail in civil actions, which, when signed and acknowledged before the proper officer, is filed in the cou

In old Scots law. A bankrupt; otherwise called dyvour. V. Dyvour.

sc. In Scots law. A known term, used to denote one's whole issua Bairns' part: the share of the father's property to which by law the child is entitled, — a third part of the free

A sum remaining due on an account; a sum expressing the difference between the debit and credit sides of an account

sp. In Spanish law. Waste land; land that is neither arable nor pastura

ballinm, 1. 1. In old Italian law. Protection; guardianship; education; ward. v. Ballium.

ballivns, Z. ?. In old English laie. A bailiff. Balivi: bailiffs; sheriff's officers.

L I. In old law. A tutor, protector or guardian.

balliva, baliratus, balivia, ballivia, I. I In old English law. A bailiwick, or jurisdiction, v. Bailiwick; Ballia.

Lat. In old English law. A bullary, or boilary; a place for boiling. Bullaria aquae salsae: a boilary of salt water; a salt-house or salt-pit, where salt is boiled.

bal'ia, balliva, baliva, balliria, balivia, I. I. In old English law.. A bailiwick, v. Bailiwick; Non est inventus, eta

I. I In old law. To bail.

balinm, I I In old law. Protection; custody; guardianship; bail or delivery; the delivery or bailing of a person out of prison, under sureties for his appearance. Bail- or sureties

balivus, baillius, baillivus, 1. 1. In old law. A bailiff, baily stable. A sheriff's ofl Bcer or deputy. A steward; an oi Bcer under a steward. One who acted foi', or represented a

A ball or ticket used in voting; a paper embodying a vote; the act of voting by a ball or ticket; the whole number of votes so cast.

I. In the Roman law. Thieves, who stole the ' clothes of bathers in the public baths.

I. fr. and eng. A loss, hurt or hindrance sustained by a party in his estate or pereon. Bamage feasant: doing damage; a term applied to cattle found on another's land, doing damage

I. fr. and eng. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, given tion, as a compensation for the injury complained of. v. Compensatory damages; Double damages; Excessive damages; Gene

sasc., eng., fr. In old European law. A military standard; a banner. A summoning to a standard; a calling out of a military force; the force itself so summoned: a national army lev

In old French law. A seigniorial right to exact certain dues or services within certain limits; as, to compel a tenant to send his grain to the lord's mill to be ground, etc. The r

bank. A bench; the place where a court regularly sits; the full bench, or full court, as distinguished from the sitting of a single judge at nisi prius. v. Bancke; Bancus; Bank.

I. fr. Bench; a name formerly given to the English court of Queen's Bench and the court of Common Pleas, v. Bank.

Lat. In old English law. A bench or seat in the king's hall or palace. A seat of judgment; a tribunal for the administration of justice. The sittings of the full court as distingui

sc. In old Scots law. A proclamation calling out a military force.

In old English law. A malefactor; a public denunciation of a malefactor, — the same with what was called hutesium, hue and cry. V. Hutesium. i

miles banerettus, benerettus, /. /. In old English law. A banneret or knight banneret, v. Banneret.

banke, bancke, banque, banky, bannc, fr. In old English laiv. Bench; the Bench. The name formerly given to the two superior common-law courts in England, the King's Bench and the C

The regular term of a court of law, as distinguished from a sittings at nisi prius. The ancient phrase in banco, in bank or banc, once exclusively used to denote the sittings of th

One who keeps a bank; one who is engaged in the business of banking, v. Banking.

o. eng. Bankrupt; insolvent; indebted beyond the means of payment, v. Bankrupt.

The business of receiving money on deposit, loaning money, discounting notes, collecting money on notes deposited, dealing in coin, bills of exchange, etc., and issuing bank-notes.

In English law, a trader who secretes himself or does certain other acta tending to defraud his creditors; in American law, in general and more loosely, any person who is unable to

The act by which one becomes voluntary where it is the act of the the act of creditors, v. Bankrupt.

bauleuga, balenca, Z. I. In old tain cities, towns, monasteries, etc., and protected by peculiar privileges.

baneret. In old English law. that of baron, when conferred by the that of baronet

I. I In old English late. V. Bannum; Bannus. ^

banniare, I. X. In old European cree or declare publicly; to publish an tion. To summon; to call out by edict, service; to summon to a standard, scribe; to put to the ban; to confi

I. I In old European law. ban, or public proclamation; a banning, V. Bannire; Bannum.

banniatus, I. I. In old European An outlaw.

I. I. In old European law. An nance; a ban. A field or territory; the the town with all its bans or bounds ment or exile; proscription; confiscation. tion or publication; the publi

bans. A public proclamation in the time of public worship of the intention the marriage covenant

I. I. In old English law. A the king's proclamation, made by the - all present at the trial by combat, to word, whatever they might see or hear.

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 degr

In Scots law. Giving judgment for a briba Baratriam committlt qui propter pecuniam jnstitiam baractat: he commits baratry who barters justice for money.

fr. In French law. Barratry.

Ibercariiim, berquariujii, 1. 1. In old English law. A sheepcote or sheepwalk; a berghery. Barcarius, barquarias, berquarius: a shepherd; a beeper of sheep.

barector, I. I. In old English law. A barretor, or barrator. V. Barretor.

I fr. A wrangling suit

A mutual undertaking; a contract between persons, one to buy, and the other to sell, goods or lands. Bargain and sale: as applied to realty, a contract for a conveyance of land for

The buyer of personalty, v. Bargain and sale.

The seller of personalty, v. Bargain and sale.

Z. 2. In old law. To bargain; to agree. Barganizavit et vendidit: (he) hath bargained and sold. Barganizasset: (he) had bargained, v. Dedi, concessi, etc. Baricellag,,2. I. In old