A Law Dictionary and Glossary

pi. bondi, I. I. In old Scots law. A bondman; a slave; a villein.

I. I. In old Scots law. Bondage; villeinage; slavery or servitude.

A memorandum of a sale of goods by a broker, executed by the broker in his own name as the agent of the seller, and given to the buyer, — a memorandum which, with a corresponding s

I. I Good and lavrful men. Bon! homines: good men. Boni judicis est: it is the duty of a good judge; — ampliare jnrisdictionem: it is the duty of a good judge to construe his juris

I. The goods not to be removed; a writ directing the sheriflE to hold the goods of a judgment debtor pending a writ of error. In the civil law. Bonis cedere: to transfer or surrend

v. Be bono et malo.

Z. In the civil law. Possession of goods; the right of pursuing and retaining the property of a decedent, not strictly due by the civil law, but granted by the praetor from a princ

Any printed literary composition, though in a single sheet, but more commonly, %uch a composition in several sheets folded and bound together so as to make uniform leaves and pages

In English law. Certain days in the year in which copyhold tenants performed base services for their lord.

V. Bote, of which it is an old form.

Property of the public enemy captured on land. Booting or I)oting corn. Rent corn, anciently so called.

1. 1. In old English law. An ox-driver; a driver of an oxteam.

bordagium, I. I. In old Englishlaw. A species of base tenure; a holding on condition of supplying smaller provisions for the table, or board of the lord. v. Bordarii; Bordlands.

bordimanni, 1. 1. In old English law. Bordmen; bordars, or cottagers: tenants in bordage. Sometimes erroneously written borduanni. v. Bordage; Bordlands.

bordhalpenny. In old English law. Money paid at fairs and markets for the privilege of setting up tables, stalls and boards for the sale of wares.

In old English laio. Demesne lands reserved by the lord for the maintenance of his board or table, v. Demesne lands.

In old English law. The quantity of provisions which bordarii or bordmen paid for their bordland.

In old English law. A tenure of bordlands. v. Bordage.

borh, borah, borhoe, sax. and o. sc. In Saxon law. A pledge; a pledge-giver, or surety: the head of each family composing a tithing or decennary, each being the pledge for the good

sax. In Saxon law. The name of the head of each family composing a tithing, v. Borg.

bnrghbrech. In Saxon law. Breach or violation of pledge; pledge-breach. The offense of violating the borg, or pledge given by the inhabitants of a tithing, v. Borg.

borghealder, borghiealder, borgiealder, borhoealder, chief, head or principal man of a borg or pledge, that is, of a tithing or decennary; a chief pledge, y. Borsholder; Decanus fr

borow, burrough, burgh. In American law. An incorporated town or village. In English law. A town; a walled or fortified town; a town that sends a burgess or burgesses to parliament

sc. In old Scots law. A pledge.

bnrsholder. In English laiv. The head or principal man of a borg, borough or tithing, v. Borhealder.

In English law. The food that trees yield to cattle; browsewood, mast, etc.; an ancient duty of wind-fallen wood. v. Cablish.

I. I. In old English law. Wood; all manner of wood; wood growing; a wood.

Sax. In old English law. An allowance; an estover or estovers. v. Estover. The word is still retained as a part of the compounds, housebote, ploughbote, firebote, etc., partly in t

In old English law. Without amends; without the privilege of making satisfaction for a crime by a pecuniary payment; without relief or remedy. Hence, in ordinary language, bootless

I. I. In old English law. A booth, stall, or tent to stand in, in fairs or markets.

I. I. In old records. Customary dues paid to the lord of the manor, for the pitching of a booth in a market or fair; boothage.

bnthna, bothena, 1. 1. In old Scots law. A park where cattle are inclosed and fed.

I. fr. Bottomry, v. Bottomry.

bottoinary, bottomree, bottom-rhea. In maritime law. A return or safe arrival of the vessel. The contract is in the form of a bond which is called a bottomry bond; the risk of the

A broad avenue set apart for ornament and for purposes of amusement and exercise. While a carriage way is a feature, a boulevard is not technically a street or highway.

A limit, or inclosing line of lands; the lines between designated points; the points themselves; a boundary, v. Boundary. In American law. Bound, or bounded tree: a tree used as a

A line or an object indicating the limit of a tract of land, an estate, or a state, country or territory; a line, or connected series of lines going around a tract of land, etc., a

In American law. Visible marks or objects at the ends of lines drawn in surveys of land, showing courses and distances.

fr. In old English law. A borough, v. Borough. In old French law. A walled town or village; a corporate town; originally any aggregation of houses, whether many or few.

fr. In old French law. An inhabitant of a bourg; a person entitled to the privileges of a municipal corpoi'ation; a burgess.

fr. In old French law. The citizens of a bourg, collectively. In later law, the privilege or franchise of being a burgess; citizenship.

v. Burgessoars.

I fr. To put. Bouter avant: to put before; to produce or exhibit.

(f. In old New York law. A farmer.

or Bovatus terrse, I I. In old English and Scots law. An oxgang, or oxgate of land; as much as an ox could till, or go over. An old measure of uncertain quantity, said by some to b

A combination among persons to prevent dealings with another or others, such as employers or tradesmen, for the purpose of coercion. B. E. The initial letters of Bancus Regis, or B

I. I. In old English law. A place for brewing ale. V. Brasitorium. '

I. fr. In old English law. An arm of the sea. v. Arm of the sea.

I. I. An arm of the sea. v. Arm of the sea.

Brussura, I. I. An injury to the person, done with violence, but without breaking the skin.

In old English law. The marking of convicted felons with a hot iron on the hand or face, as, burning in the hand on the allowance of clergy.

I. Jr. In old English law. A breaker, as of prison.

A violation of a duty or an obligation; a breaking, or a forcible passing through or over a material object; that part of a declaration which charges a violation of contract Breach

A parting or dividing with force or violence; a severing ' by fracture; a removal of a part of a house or of any fastening designed to prevent intrusion; to enter in the night-time

1. 1 In old English law. A breach, or decay, or any other want of repair.

sax. In Saxon and old English law. A fine, penalty or amercement imposed for a default in the assise of bread.

pi. brehons. In old Irish law. A judge. Brelion law: the native system of law which existed in Ireland prior to the conquest by Henry IL So called from the name given to the judges

gr.-l. In the civil law. Persons appointed to take charge of foundlings.

sax. In Saxon law. The ruler of the Saxon heptarchy.

pi. brevia. In old English law. A writ; strictly an original,writ, a writ by which alone any action in a superior court could be begun; in a more general sense, any precept of the

In English law. An abstract, or epitome; a brief. A short extract, or copy of a writing.

or Breviarium aniani, Lat. The breviary, or abridgment of Alaric, or of Anian; a code of law compiled by order of Alaric II., king of the Visigoths, for the use of the Romans livin

The offering of an undue reward to a person concerned in the administration of justice, or to a public officer, to influence his behavior in his office; the taking of such undue re

sc In old Scots law. A writ Brieve of richt: a writ of right

briggebote, brngbote, saoi. In Saxon and old English law. A tribute or contribution towards the repairing of bridges; an acquittance or exemption from such duty.

fr. In French maritime laio. Breaking; wreck, v. Naufrage.

brigbote, brigrgebote, saoc. In old English law. A contribution for the repair of bridges.

brogillus, I. I. In old English law. A thicket or clump of trees in a park or forest; a grove or wood. Brnilletns: a small coppice wood or thicket

brokage. In old English law. The wages, compensation or commission of a broker; the business or occupation of a brokei.

broccarins, 1. 1, Brocker, o. se. In old Scots law. A broker, negotiator, mediator, or middle-man.

I l, Brogger. In old English law. A broker.

A broker; so called in old English statutes.

An agent employed to buy and sell or to make contracts, particularly in matters of trade, commerce and navigation, as a mere middle-man or negotiator, — he being, in general, not a

The commission paid to a broker.

A breaking. Brusure de ponntz: breaking of bridges.

A returning; that which returns; the returning of land into the possession of a donor, or his heirs, after the gift is ended; the returning of an estate to the original owner, or h

The necessity of proving a fact or facts in dispute on an issue between parties in a cause, v. Onus prdbandi.

Burgaginm, I. I. In English law. A tenure by which houses, or lands formerly the site of houses, in ancient boroughs, are held of the king, or other lord of the borough, — a specie

burgenses, I. I. In old English law. Inhabitants of a burgus, borough, or walled town; burghers or burgesses.

I. I. In old criminal law. One who broke into and robbed a burg, or inclosed place; a burglar or housebreaker.

I: I. In old English law. Inhabitants of a burgus or borough; burgesses.

bonrgessonrs, Z. /n In old English law. Burglars.

burghbrlch, borghbrech. In Saxon law. Breach of pledge; violating of the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing, to keep the peace; bi-each of the peace, v. Borgbreeh.

Burgator, burglator, 1. 1. A person who commits burglary.

In the manner of a burglar; with intent to commit burglary. Except as otherwise by statute, an essential word in an indictment for burglary, as burglariter was formerly.

I. I. Burglariously. In old pleading an essential word in an indictment for burglary, — a word of art admitting of no periphrasis.

The breaking and entering the dwelling-house of another by night, with intent to commit a felony. The meaning of the word has been to some extent modified by statute both in Englan

v. Lex Burgundionum.

Murdering for the purpose of procui-ing a body to sell for dissection.

byrlaw, or birlaw courts. In Scots law. Courts composed of neighbors elected and chosen by common consent, which take cognizance of complaints between neighbor and neighbor. The ju

birlaws, byrlaws. In Scots law. Laws made by neighbors elected by common consent in the birlaw courts; laws made by husbandmen, etc., concerning neighborhood.

The act of subjecting to fire or heat; the act of consuming by fire or heat; in the law of arson the act of consuming with fire. Burning in the hand: burning on the brawn of the le

I. l, Barsc, I, fr. In old English law. A purse; a bag. Bursarum scissores: cutters of purses; cut-purses.

In old English law. The punishment for sodomy, and contracting with Jews.

bntsecarl, buzecarl, sax. In Saxon and old English law. Seamen or marines.

A dry measui-e containing eight gallons. The standard measure in the United States contains 2,150.42 cubic inches, which is the same as what is known as the Winchester bushel, the

busellus, bussellum, I. l, Bussel, I fr. In old English law. A bushel; a dry measure containing eight gallons of wheat Bnssels at demy bussels: bushels and half-bushels.

In old English law. An ancient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, at first called prisage (q. v.), being the right of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing into En

In old English law. A measure of wine, containing at least 125 gallons; a measure of land.

In old conveyancing. The boundary lines of lands on the ends, as distinguished from those on the sides, which were called sidings, v. Abuttals.