Law Dictionary

One who buys; a purchaser, particularly of chattels.

The term “buyer in the ordinary course of business” means a person who, in the ordinary course of business, buys farm products from a person engaged in farming operations who is in

A right on the part of a buyer to take and pay for the thing bought at any time within a given period.

To purchase, at public sale, property which is one's own or which one has caused or procured to be sold.

The purchase of land or claims to land from one not in possession. The transfer was void, and an offence at common law. v. Champerty. By-laM7s. Local laws of towns or courts. Laws

“buying rate” means the buying rate in the market in New York, New York, for cable transfers payable in the currency of a foreign country to be converted.

The purchase of the rights of a disseisee to lands of which a third person has the possession. BY, or BYE. A habitation. Co. Litt.; 18 App. Div. (N. y.) 142.

The term “buy-protect-sell transaction” means a legal arrangement— (i) between an eligible entity and the Secretary relating to land that an eligible entity owns or is going to pur

I In old English law. The first pleading on the part -of the defendant; an exception taken by a party to the trial; an objection to a juror; an exception in a deed. Exceptio ad bre

Im practice. A writ carried into effect by the oflicer to whom itis directed. The term “executed,” applied

By their or its own force. 2 Kent, Comm. 457.

That which is done, given, or effected outside the course of regular judicial proceedings; not founded upon, or unconnected with, the action of a court of law; as extrajudicial evi

This word, when descriptively used in a grant, does not mean "in immediate contact with," but "near" to, the object to which it relates; and "near" la a relative term, meaning, whe

the power to eliminate all racial barriers to the acquisition of real and personal property? We think the answer to that question is plainly yes.

Bidding on property offered for sale at auction, by or in behalf of the owner, for the mere purpose of raising the price, or inducing others to bid higher. Sometimes called "puf Hn

In the law relating to sales by auction, this term is equivalent to "puffing." The practice consists in making fictitious bids for the property, under a secret arrangement with the

or BY BILL WITHOUT WRIT. of by original writ. 1 Archb. Pr. pp. 2, 337' 5 Hill (N. Y.) 213. They were later used to denote actions commenced, by capias.

In practice. Terms anciently used to designate actions commenced by original bill, as distinguished from those commenced by original writ, and applied in modern practice to suits c

The term “bycatch” means fish which are harvested in a fishery, but which are not sold or kept for personal use, and includes economic discards and regulatory discards. Such term d

In Hindu law. A deed of mortgage or conditional sale.

A term used In conveyances. In sales of land it not unfrequently occurs that the property is said to contain a certain number of acres "by estimation," or so many acres, "more or l

In old English criminal practice. The established formula of reply by a prisoner, when arraigned at the bar, to the question, "Culprit, how wilt thou be tried?" Mr. Barrington thin

an offense, is nevertheless by virtue of the unspoken and implied mandate of the statute to be adjudged not guilty by reason of someone's else improper conduct.

In an ancient deed, certain parties are described as "yeomen and by-law men for this present year in Easinguold." 6 Q. B. 60. habitants, as the name would suggest, under bylaws of

In Old English Law. The ordinances of a town or village. See "By." In Modern Usage. Rules and ordinances made by a corporation for its own government. See 18 App. Div. (N. Y.) 142.

The term “by means of the World Wide Web” means by placement of material in a computer server-based file archive so that it is publicly accessible, over the Internet, using hyperte

The term "bypass" means an alternate water route adjacent to a lock and dam on a Federal inland waterway system that can be used for commercial navigation during high wat

“byproduct” means any mineral or minerals (exclusive of oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium) which are found in solution or in association with geothermal steam and which have a value

The term “by-product material” has the meaning given that term in section 11(e) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ( 42 U.S.C. 2014(e) ).

the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content.

the term “byproducts” includes, with respect to any solar energy technology or process, any solar energy products (including energy forms) other than those associated with or const

"There are three kinds of roads known to our law: (1) Public roads; (2) private roads; (3) by-roads. All these difis, as its name imports, an obscure or neighborhood road in its ea

1825, c.76,§ 23, 3 Stor. L. U. S., 2006, a wilful and corrupt conspiracy to cast away, burn or otherwise destroy any ship or vessel, with intent to injure any underwriter thereon,

A condition existing when a defendant was in the custody of the court in another action.

In practice. Without process. A declaration is said to be filed by the bye when it is filed against a party already in the custody of the court under process in another suit. This

that congressional districts are to be 'as nearly as is practicable' equal in population, ante, pp. 7-8.