A Law Dictionary and Glossary

or Bei'ghmote. Courts in Derbyshire, England, called respectively the great and the small, which administer justice among

I. fr. Baron; a baron; husband.

barus, biro, Lat. In old English law. A man; a freeman, or freedman; a strong, able-bodied man, who serves for hire; a warrior or chief, as distinguished by strength; a life, or bo

barroun, barun, I. fr. Baron; a husband.

I. fr. and eng. A particular degree of nobility in England, — the fifth and lowest; a judge of the court of exchequer; a husband; a freeman. The chief citizens of London and some o

baronaginm, barnagium, 1. 1. The collective body of the English nobility. The retinue, attendants or fo Upwing of a baron.

An English name of dignity signifying little baron; an hereditary dignity created by letters patent, and usually descendible to the issue male, but not a title of nobility.

baroncellns, baronulus, baroncnlus, bariculns, baronicnlns, 1. 1. In old English law. A baronet; a little or lesser baron.

Baronatns, I. I. In old English law. The dignity, territory, patrirnony or fee of a baron; a barony; a manor, or the territory of a manor; a house of a certain kind in London; a pa

I. In old English law. A baroness, the wife of a baron.

The dignity of a baron. A species of tenure, a holding anciently by the service of attending the king in his courts, as a baron. ' The territory, of a baron, or the lands which for

I. t In old English law. A bar to an action; a plea containing a sufl Scient answer to the action; a plea in bar; the bar of a court V. Bar; Barre; Barrister.

I I. In old English law. A barrister; a pleader at the bar.

I. I. In old English law. To embezzle.

v. Barretor. ^ ' Barratrous. Fraudulent; having the character of barratry.

Fraudulent, criminally negligent or wilfully injurious conduct on the part of the master or crew of a vessel, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his conse

Common carrier: a carrier for hire wlio carries indifferently for any one who may employ him, without special contract Common council: the representative body of a corporation, in

I. fi: In old English law. Bar; the bar of a court; the members of the legal profession, Serjeants or barristers, practicing in a particular court; a plea in bar. v. Barra.

barretter, barrator, barator, barratoure. A person who commits barretry; a person who spreads false rumors and calumnies to the creation of discord among neighbors; a litigious, co

barratry. The frequent or common moving or maintaining of suits and quarrels either at law or otherwise. It is usually called common barretry, a single act not being sufficient The

In England, a counselor who is admitted to plead at the bai', — if as a sergeant or a King's or Queen's counsel, an inner barrister; if without, as any other, an utter or outer bar

The exchange of one commodity, or article of property, for another.

berton. In Devonshire, and other parts of England, the demesne lands of a manor; sometimes the manor house Itself; and in some places outhouses and fold-yards. ■ v. Berton.

I. fr. Inquest; an inquest or inquisition.

Low; inferior. Base court: any inferior court not of record. Base estate: the estate of a base tenant Base fee: a fee without a qualification; a fee determinable upon some collater

gr.-l. King. A title frequently given to the king in England, in charters before the conquest

gr.-l. A compilation of Greek and Roman law, in the Greek language, made during the latter part of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth centuries, under the superintendence of

/n In feudal law. Low justice; the right of a feudal lord to try persons accused of petty offenses, v. Justice.

I. I. In old English law. A female bastard.

I. I. In old English law. The plea or objection of illegitimacy. ^

I. I. In old English law. Bastard; a bastard. Bastardas nnllins est Alius; aut Alius populi, I. A bastard is no man's son, or the son of the people.

Batardise, fr. " A defect of birth, objected of a child begotten out of wedlock; the state or condition of a bastard; the offense of begetting a bastard. Bastardy l)ond; a bond exe

fr. In old English law. A staff or club; a baton.

I. I. In old law. Close custody.

bataile, I. fr. In'old English law. Battel; the trial by combat or duellum.

To handle or brandish weapons; to strike; to fight

batalia, I. I. A battle or combat.

batteria, I. I. In old English law. Battery; a battery; the unlawful beating of anofher.

battail. In old English law. Duel, or single combat. A species of trial by combat, introduced into England by William the Conqueror, in which a person accused of felony was allowed

I. I. To beat or strike; properly, to beat with a club or stick.

The unlawful beating of another; any unlawful, wilful or unduly careless touching of the person of another, either by the aggressor himself, or by anything put in motion by him. Ba

fr. In old English law. To dehver; to lend. v. Bailler.

In old English law. Bailiff.

A species of creek or stream common in Louisiana and Texas, constituting an outlet from a swamp, pond or lagoon, to a river, or the sea.

In old English law. Money paid towards the maintenance of a beacon, or watch-fire.

bedel. An officer attached to a church, or parish, whose business it is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings and execute its orders, to assist the constable in appr

One who bears or carries a thing; as, a lettei^a check on a bank, a bank-note.

In old English law. Persons who bore down, or oppressed others.

Dated; having a date on the face.

In Suffolk, England, land and common for one beast

In English law. The buck, doe, fox, martin and roe; but in a common and legal sense, all beasts of the forest Beasts of the forest: the hart, hind, hai'e, boar and wolf; but legall

heaupleder, bewpleader. In old English law. Fair pleading; apt or correct pleading; or, perhaps, the fair or favorable hearing of a plea, or suit

L fr. To reclaim; to make a claim; to challenge.

I To recover; to regain, v. Quod recuperet.

recognisance. An acknowledgment upon record; an acknowledgment of a debt upon record; an obligation of record, entered into before a court or a magistrate duly authorized, with con

To bind or to become bound by a recognizance. In old English law. To examine, or try; to inquire so as to know.

One in whose favor a recognizance is executed, v. Cognigee.

One who executes a recognizance, v. Cognizor.

I. In old English laiv. To acknowledge; to recognize, that is, to try or examine, as a jury; to inquire so as to know the truth; to know again; to call to remembrance.

I. 2. In old English law. An assise; a jury, as distinguished from an assise proper; the vei-diot of an assise; an acknowledgment; a recognizance.

A cross-demand,— a term derived from the reconventio of the civil law, and in use in Louisiana and Texas.

recoop. To defalk or discount ages by cutting out or keepiug back

Defalcation or discount of something which is due, because withhold it; a reduction or diminution satisfaction of a claim arising out action arises, as in an action on a defects in

A going back, as to a former ment who has transferred it by words " without recourse."

I. In the civil and canon law. A cross-demand by the reus upon the actor; a proceeding in the nature of a cross-bill in equity.

I. fr. A recognizance to keep the peace; the inquisition of an assise or jury.

To preserve the memory of by writing; to transcribe into something permanent for reference; to enter in books, to preserve as a memorial, as a deed or proceeding in court

A memorial of a thing done; a writing preserved as evidence; a transcription into something permanent for preservation as a memorial; a written account, in England in rolls of parc

Ifr. Tn old English law. judge to a jury.

The chief judicial ofl Scer criminal matters the jurisdiction criminal judge of a city. In American law. In some of the Ohio, a register of deeds. In old English law. A person whom

II In old English and sunt vestig'ia vetustatis et veritatis: tiquity and of truth, v. Prout patet,

In old conveyancing, the recovery.

I. In the dvil and canon law. To make a cross-demand upon the actor.

To obtain by course of law; to succeed in an action.

reco Trir, I. fr. To recover of law.

In old conveyancing, the process of a common recovery. •

The obtaining a thing by result of an action brought for the

I. fr. and eng., Becreantus, ardly; faint-hearted; yielding to defeat To record. Recordari facias lobe recorded; a writ by' which a removed from a county court to Recorder. It is r

A counter-accusation; an accusation made by an accused party against the accuser; a set-off by a defendant in a suit for a divorce, on the ground of adultery, of equal guilt on the

rettatns, I. I. In old English law. Suspected; accused; charged; summoned to answer an accusation.

I. I In Saxon and old English law. A right or legal due. Bectitndines: rights.

I. and eng. In English ecclesiastical law, the governor of a church; a person having the care ot a parish church; a clerk having full possession of a living and tithes, v. Parson.

In English ecclesiastical law, the o£Bce of a rector; an entire parish church, with all its rights, otherwise commonly called a benefice; a rector's manse, or parsonage house.

I. In old English law. Right; law; a right claimed by a party; a right to land claimed by the writ called a writ of right; an accusation or charge of crime; suspicion of crime.

I. In old English law. Recovery; restitution by judgment of a thing wrongfully taken or detained.

In English law. Persons who refused to attend the service of the Church of England, or to conform to its ceremonies, or to take the oath against papists.

The channel of a stream; the part between the banks worn by the regular flow of the water.

Z. L- Rendering; yielding; tbe technical name of a clause in a conveyance by which the grantor creates or reserves some new thing to himself. Keddens causain scienti%, I I. In Scot

I. I. Rendering; the formal word by which in old conveyancing a rent was reserved to a grantor. Beddendo inde per annum, tantam, ad certos termlnos tales: rendering therefor so muc

L In old English law. To render; to pay; to give or yield. In the eivil law. To give back; to restore.

LI In old English law. A rental or rent-roll.

reditus, I. I. In old English law. A rent; a payment; a thing rendered, paid or yielded. Bedditns siccus: rent seek; dry or barren rent

In old English law. A judicial confession and acknowledgment that a thing in demand belonged to the demandant, or, at least, not to the person so confessing.

I. I. In old English lato. A ransom or fine.

bedell, beadle. A crier, messenger, summoner, apparitor, bailiff, underbailiff. A crier or jnessenger of a court, who cites parties to appear, and answer; an officer of the forest,

In old English law. The district of a bedel; as a bailiwick

A purchasing of a thing which the purchaser formerly owned. Bedemption, equity of: the defeating of the title of a mortgagee by performance of the condition of the mortgage, or by

I Returning; while returning.

In old English law, A service which bound to perform; as to reap their landlord's

2. In the civil law. To have again; to have back; to cause a seller to have what he had befora