Law Dictionary

This term in an action on a bill of exchange is equivalent to expenses of noting and may be especially endorsed as a liquidated demand; [1893] 1 Q. B. 31S.

The right of the depositor is a chose in action, and his check does not transfer the debt, or give a lien upon it to a third person without the assent of the depositary.

A credit with a bank by which, on proper security given to the bank, a person receives liberty to draw to a certain extent agreed upon. In Scotland also called a cash account. Such

Accommodations allowed to a person on security given to a bank, to draw money on it to a certain extent agreed upon.

All deposits made with bankers may be divided into two classes, namely, those in which the bank becomes bailee of the depositor, the title to the thing deposited remaining with the

The deposit of a bill in one bank, to be transmitted for collection, to another, is a common usage of great public convenience, the effect of which is well understood... The Court

The relationship of bank and depositor is that of debtor and creditor, founded upon contract. The bank has the right and duty under that contract to honor checks of its depositor p

by the language of the commercial world, and the settled practice of banks, a discount by a bank means, ex vi termini, a deduction or draw-back made upon its advances or loans of m

A dealer In capital, — an intermediate party between the borrower and the lendet, — who borrows of one party and lends to another; and the business of banking is, among other thing

Old EJnglish. Bankrupt. BANKER'S ^OTE. A promissory note given by a private banker or banking institution not incorporate, but resembling a bank note in all other respects. 6 Mod.

A bank note issued by a private, unincorporated bank.

The terms “bank holding company” and “bank” have the meanings given to such terms in section 2 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 [ 12 U.S.C. 1841 ]. / The term “bank holding

The business of receiving money on deposit, loaning money, diseount-ing notes, issning notes for circuiation, collecting money on notes deposited, negotiating bills, etc. Bank v. T

The business conducted by a banker. See 18 Ann. Cas. 829.

The term “banking entity” means any insured depository institution (as defined in section 1813 of this title ), any company that controls an insured depository institution, or that

The term 'banking institution' shall include any person engaged primarily or incidentally in the business of banking, of granting or transferring credits, or of purchasing or selli

the term “banking law violation” means a violation of, or a conspiracy to violate— (A) section 215, 656, 657, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1014, 1344, 1956, or 1957; (B) section 1341 or 1343

“banking organization” means any bank, trust company, savings bank, safe deposit company, or a private banker engaged in business in the United States;

The term “Bank Insurance Fund member” means any depository institution the deposits of which are insured by the Bank Insurance Fund.

The term “Bank Insurance Fund reserve ratio” means the ratio of the net worth of the Bank Insurance Fund to the value of the aggregate estimated insured deposits held in all Bank I

A promissory note issued by a bank or authorized banker, payable to bearer on demand, and intended to circulate as money. Same as Bank-Bill, supra.

A promissory note, payable on demand to the bearer, and intended to circulate as money, made and issued by a person or persons acting as bankers, and authorized by law to issue suc

The doctrine that bank bills are a good tender, unless objected to at the time, on the ground that they are not money, only applies to current bills, which are redeemed at the coun

Bank notes constitute a part of the common currency of the country, and, ordinarily, pass as money. When they are received as payment, the receipt is always given for them as money

A bank authorized to issue bank notes. See 87 Pa. 468, 30 Am. Rep. 378.

It was determined by this court in the case of the Bank of the United States vs. Deveaux, 'that the courts of the United States could not take jurisdiction of actions brought by th

2 For purposes of subsection (b)(5), the term “Bank Plan” means the benefit structure in which employees of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System appointed on or aft

(See "Banque.") A person against whom an involuntary petition or an application to set a composition aside has been filed, or who has filed a voluntary petition, or who has been ad

In American law. The meaning of this term remains perhaps to be settled, although the tendency hitherto has been to give it the looser sense of insolvent, or in other words, to use

the power to discharge the debtor from his contracts and legal liabilities, as well as to distribute his property.

Bankruptcy originated as a seizure of the debtor's assets for equitable distribution amongst creditors. It was akin to a taking in execution. The concept was subsequently broadened

The term “Bankruptcy Act” means the Bankruptcy Act or title 11.

several services commonly performed by attorneys, e.g., providing "advice, counsel, [or] document prepara tion," §101(4A).

several services com —————— 2 Compare 541 F. 3d 785, 794 (CA8 2008) (case below), with Hersh v. United States ex rel.

goods or services "provided to an assisted person with the express or implied purpose of providing information, advice, counsel, document preparation, or filing, or attendance at a

The term “Bankruptcy Code” means title 11.

a court of equity... guided by equitable doctrines and principles except in so far as they are inconsistent with the Act

A court of bankruptcy has an exclusive and nondelegable control over the administration of an estate in its possession.

Courts for the administration of the bankrupt laws. The present English bankruptey courts are the London bankruptey court, the court of appeal, and the local bankruptey courts crea

"bankruptcy judge" means an individual— (A) who is appointed under section 34 of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U.S.C. 62) or under section 404(d) of the Act of November 6, 1978

The especial purpose of all bankruptcy legislation is to interfere with the relations between the parties concerned—to change, modify, or impair the obligation of their contracts.

Bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, whether the debtor is a natural or a juristic person, confer upon the receiver or assignee a title which, generally speaking, is without recog

“bankruptcy petition preparer” means a person, other than an attorney for the debtor or an employee of such attorney under the direct supervision of such attorney, who prepares for

States may not pass or enforce laws to interfere with or complement the Bankruptcy Act or to provide additional or auxiliary regulations.

The term includes all proceedings in a federal court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy, founded on a petition in bankruptcy and either directly or collaterally involved in the adju

The 'proceedings' reviewable [under § 24b] are those administrative orders and decrees in the ordinary course of a bankruptcy between the filing of the petition and the final settl

This rule, commonly known as the bankruptcy rule, is designed to preclude any unwarranted advantage from accruing to the secured creditor. Grounded upon the statutory principle of

The 42d section of the act directs, that where it shall appear to the commissioners that there hath been mutual credit given by the bankrupt and any other person, or mutual debts b

Every bankrupt or insolvent system in the world must partake of the character of a judicial investigation. Parties whose rights are affected, are entitled to a hearing. Hence, any

A law relating to bankrupts and the procedure against them in the courts. A law providing a remedy for the creditors of a bankrupt, and for the relief and restitution of the bankru

Where a bankrupt has an insurance policy with cash surrender value and reserves the absolute right to change the beneficiary, such policy passes to the trustee as assets unless wit

Banks, in the commercial sense, are of three kinds, to wit: 1, of deposit; 2, of discount; 3, of circulation. All or any two of these functions may, and frequently are, exercised b

The term “Bank Secrecy Act” means— (A) section 1829b of this title ; (B) chapter 2 of title I of Public Law 91–508 ( 12 U.S.C. 1951 et seq.); and (C) subchapter II of chapter 53 of

the term "Bank Secrecy Act officer" means an individual responsible for ensuring compliance with the requirements mandated by subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31 (com

the term “bank service company” means— (A) any corporation— (i) which is organized to perform services authorized by this chapter; and (ii) all of the capital stock of which is own

The capital of a bank. In England the sum is applied chiefly to the stock of the Bank of England.

Greiner, 2 Serg. & R. (Pat) 115.

A certain space surrounding towns or cities, distinguished by peculiar privileges. Spelman. It is the same as the French banlieue.

In Canadian law. See "Banleuca."

A French and Canadian law term, having the same meaning as banleuca, (q. v.)

The term “banned hazardous substance” means (A) any toy, or other article intended for use by children, which is a hazardous substance, or which bears or contains a hazardous subst

A small flag bearing a device or symbol and intended to be carried or waved. L. R. 2 P. C. 387. A canvas, particolored or bearing party words and stretched across a street is a ban

or BANE RET. One knighted on the field. So called, according to Wharton, from the formula of cutting off the point of his standard, so as to make it a banner. BANNI NUPTIARUM (Law

We ban or expel. The form of expulsion of a member from the University of Oxford, by affixing the sentence in some public places, as a promulgation of it Cowell.

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

Bans of matrimony.

In old law, one under a ban, (q. v.;) an outlaw or banished man. Britt cc. 12, 13; Calvin.

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

AD MOLENdlnum. To summon tenants to serve at the lord's courts, to bring corn to be ground at his mill.

To summon tenants to serve at the lord's courts, to bring corn to be ground at his mill.

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

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

One outlawed or banished. Calv. Lex.

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

See Bans of Matrimony.

Published notice of an intended marriage.

A ban. (g. v.) lamation, made by the voice of a herald forbidding all present at the trial by combat to interfere, either by motion or word, whatever they might see or hear. Bracto

A proclamation.

A bench; the table or counter of a trader, merchant, or banker. Banque route, a broken bench or counterbankrupt, or, in old English, bankerout. '

Public notice or proclamation of a matrimonial contract, and the intended celebration of the marriage of the parties in pursuance of such contract, to the end that persons objectin

In East Indian law. A Hindoo merchant or shop-keeper. The word is used in Bengal to denote the native who manages the money concerns of a European, and sometimes serves him as an i

(1) A particular part of the court room. As thus applied, and secondarily in various ways, it takes its name from the actual bar, or inclosing rail, which originally divided the be

[L. Lat. barra.] In practice. The place in court which counsellors or advocates occupy while addressing the court or jury, and where prisoners are brought for the purpose of being

contracts, is an obstacle or opposition. Some bars arise from circumstances and others from persons. Kindred within the prohibited degree, for example, is a bar to a marriage betwe

(Spanish) A kept mistress; an inferior wife.

Span. A concubine, whom a man keeps alone in his house, uneonnected with any other woman. Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 14. Baratriam committit qui propter pecuniam justitiam baractat.

A society composed of members of the bar.

Associations of members of the bar have been organized in most of the states. The first of them was in Mississippi in 1825, but it is not known to have had a continued existence. O

To quarrel.

Lat. In old English law. A barretor, (q. v.) Spelman,

One has committed barratry who sells justice for money.

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.

In old Lombardlc law. An uncle (patruus). Spelman.

Barbers were incorporated with the surgeons of London, but not to practice surgery, except the drawing of teeth; 32 Hen. VIII. c. 42. The business of a barber involves the public h

Money paid to support a barbican or watch tower.

Lat. In old English law. A barkary, or tan house; a place to keep bark for the use of tanners. Cowell, Towns. PL 55.

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

Barcarium, Berquarium. L. Lat. [Fr. bergerie from berger, a shepherd.] In old English law. a sheepcote or sheepwalk; a berghery. Spelman. Cowell. Barcarius, Barquarius, Berqtuxrius

The term “BARDA” means the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.