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The term “benefit-responsive withdrawals or transfers” means any withdrawal or transfer of funds (consisting of any portion of the principal and any interest credited at a rate gua

only funds provided under a federal assistance program, the Court, in practice, adopts it.

Under this and several similar names, in various states, corporations exist to receive periodical payments from members, and hold them as a fund to be loaned or given to members .n

In this section, the term “benefits under subchapter VIII or XVI” includes State supplementary payments made by the Commissioner pursuant to an agreement under section 1010a or 138

For purposes of this part, the term “benefits under the original medicare fee-for-service program option” means, subject to subsection (m), those items and services (other than hos

the term “benefits under this subchapter” includes payments of the type described in section 1382e(a) of this title and of the type described in section 212(b) of Public Law 93–66;

“benefit year” means the benefit year as defined by the applicable State unemployment compensation law, and if not so defined the term means the period prescribed in the agreement

The person in whose favor a promissory note or bill of exchange is payable; or any person in whose favor a contract of any description is executed. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 547.

I. I. In civil and feudal fice, fief or fee; to enfeoff.

I. I. In old English beneplacito.

A feudal service rendered by the tenant to his lord with plow and cart. Cowell; Spelman.

Good will; kindness; humanity. It is a broader word than "charity." 19 N. J. Eq. 307; 44 Conn. 60; 11 Mass. 267. In Old English Law. A voluntary gratuity given by the subjects to t

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A term of wider and more indefinite meaning than "charitable," and generally held too indefinite to up- BENIGNAE FACIENDAE SUNT INTERpretatlones chartarum, ut res magis valeat quam

but are not limited to, nonprofit nursing homes and nonprofit boarding homes and boarding care facilities licensed by the Department of Human Services pursuant to Title 22, chapter

Those having a philanthropic or charitable purpose, as distinguished from such as are conducted for profit; specifically, "benefit associations" or "beneficial associations." See B

The form in ancient fines and submissions to purchase the king's pardon and favor in order to be restored to place, title or estate. Paroch. Antiq. 172.

Societies established and registered under the friendly societies act, 1875, for any charitable or benevolent purposes.

In Berkshire, a remedy for the inhabitants thereof to levy money recovered against them on the statute of hue and cry. 39 Eliz. c. 25.

I. Liberally; favorably; producing or attended with profit a benefit or profit A term ap-; as beneficial interest, beneficial law. To grant or confer a benelaw. A beneficiary; one

pretationes propter simpiicitatem laicorum, ut res magis valtae quam pereat; et verba intentione, non e contra, debent inservire. Cdnstructions should be liberal, on account of the

propter simplicitatem laicorum, ut res magis valeat quam pereat; et verba intentioni, non e contra, debent inservire, i. Interpretations are to be made liberally, by reason of the

Liberal construction should be given to a deed, so that it may stand rather than fall.

Libaral interpretations are to be made of deeds, so that the purpose may rather stand than fall; and every grant is to be token most strongly against the grantor. Wallis v. Wallis,

Liberal construction should be given to a deed, so that it may stand rather than fall. A grant should be construed most strongly against the grantor. See 4 Mass. 134.

Constructions [of written instruments] are to be made liberally, on account of the simplicity of the laity, [or common people,] in order that the thing [or subject-matter] may rath

On account of the ignorance of laymen, liberal construction should be given, so that affairs may stand rather than fall; and words ought to serve according to intention, and not ot

Laws are to be more liberally interpreted, in order that their intent may be preserved. Dig. 13, 18.

IN VERBiS general Ibus seu dubiis, est preferanda. The more favorable construction is to be placed on general or doubtful expressions. 4 Coke, 15; Dig. 50. 17. 192. 1; 2 Kent, Comm

4 Coke, 15. The more favorable construction is to ba placed on general or doubtfni expressions.

A more liberal meaning of general or doubtful words is preferable.

Laws should be construed more liberally that their intent may be preserved.

I In dvil and gent; liberal; benign; nignior: more favorabla alibns sen dnbiis est general or doubtful words terpretandse sunt quo be more liberally interpreted served.

Lat. Kind, favorable, liberal, benign; as opposed to strict, harsh or narrow. Ez benigna interpretations; by a liberal interpretation. Bract, fol. 95. Benignior; more favorable. Be

In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the bailiff collects the sama

A service which certain tenants were anciently bound to perform, as to reap their landlord's corn at harvest. Said by Whishaw to be still in existence in some parts of England. Blo

To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speechijand dogmatic assertions; to bear down by impudence: as, to browbeat a witness.' Compare Badger. See Exam

replevisable. That may be replevied, or taken back on pledge.

I. Money refused [the refusal of money tendered] releases him who pays [or tenders it].

To give personal property by will to another. 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 106. The word may be construed "devise," so as to pass real estata 36 Me. 216; 119 Mass. 525.

the provision of the act that exempts bequests assumes the gift of a corpus and contrasts it with the income arising from it, but was not intended to exempt income property socalle

It is said by the chancellor of Maryland, 2 Bland’s Chancery Rep. 314, that the bequest of freedom to a slave is a specific legacy, and undoubtedly this is its true legal character

A bequest in the form of a direction to pay at a future period vests in interest immediately if the payment be postponed for the convenience of the estate or to let in some other i

A sheep fold; a tan house or heath house, where barks or rinds of trees are laid to tan. Domesday Book; Co. Litt 66.

A shepherd.

Bereavement Counseling Defined.—For purposes of this section, the term “bereavement counseling” means such counseling services, for a limited period, as the Secretary determines to

A manor; a town.

To turn back; to act in an opposite direction; to undo, annul, set aside or vacate on the ground of error, as to reverse a judgment

To vest again, as a seisin acquired a second time by the person out of whom it has been devested.

BEREWICHA, BEREWICHus, berewita, or berwita (Law Lat.) In old English law. A manor, or rather a part of a manor, separated from the main body; a smaller manor, belonging to a large

In old English law. A term used in Domesday for a village or hamlet belonging to some town or manor.

Same as Barton.

In Seotch law. A gift or present mace or left by a tenant to his lord a3 a token of reverencs. Skene.

A plain; a field; a manor.

as a constitutional matter, that the subject of the surveillance be named if known, Congress would hardly have read those cases as requiring the naming of all parties likely to be

barmaster, mine; a bailiff, or chief in addition to his other

An officer having charge of a mine. A baillff or chief officer among the Derbyshire miners, who, in addition to his other duties, executes the office of coroner among them. Blount;

or BERGMOTH. In old English law. A court for deciding controversies among the Derbyshire miners. Blount; Cowell.

or BERGHMOTE. The ancient name of the court now called “barmote,” (gq. v.)

The ancient name of the court now called "bar-mote," (q. v.)

Lat. [Sax. berg, berig, beorg, burg.] In old law. A city, town, burg or borough. Berg, Sax. is properly a mountain. Spelman.

Same as Barmote.

A plain; a field.

Persons chosen by the citizens, to have the care and supervision of bridges, and having certain fees and profits belonging to their office, as in the case of London Bridge.

A viewing again; revisement; reconsideration; re-examination for the purpose of correction. Eeview, bill of: in equity, a bill, in the nature of a writ of error, filed to procure a

The term “Berlin crisis” means the period beginning on August 14, 1961, and ending on May 30, 1963.

A test used by neurologists consisting in the application of a test tube containing hot water, a test tube containing cold water, a piece of metal which feels cold when applied to

The side opposite the tow path of a canal.

In Saxon law. Burning; the crime of house burning, now called "arson." Cowell; Blount. BERRA (Law Lat.) In old law. A plain; open heath. Cowell; Spelman.

where the Executive Branch, charged as it is with primary responsibility for the conduct of foreign affairs, expressly represents to the Court that application of the act of state

Lat. In old English law. A sheepfold. Domesday. Spelman, voc. Barcarium. A tan house. Co. Litt. 5 b.

A plain, open heath.—Cowell.

A villa or seat of habitation of a nobleman; a dwelling or mansion house; a sanctuary.

birdinsek, which exempted from stole only so much food sack.

A method of anthropometry, used chiefly for the Identification of criminals and other persons, consisting of the inking and recording of a system of numerous, minute, and uniform m

A large farm; the barnyard of a large farm. BES (Lat.; pi. b esses). In the Roman law. A division of the as, or pound, consisting of eight unciae, or duodecimal parts, and amountin

/. I In old English lage appurtenant to a

Lat. In old English law. A manor, or part of a manor; a village appurtenant to a manor. Cowell. Spelman, voc. Berewica.

Same as Barton.

The term “beryllium vendor” means any of the following: (A) Atomics International. (B) Brush Wellman, Incorporated, and its predecessor, Brush Beryllium Company. (C) General Atomic

Lat. In the Roman law. A division of the as or pound, consisting of eight unciæ or duodecimal parts, and amounting to two-thirds of the as. 2 BL Comm. 462, note m. Two-thirds of an

Besayle, etc.,/r. A great-grandfather. A writ like Aiel, brought on the seisin of a great-grandfather; v. Aiel.

BESAYLE. The great-grandfather, proavus. 1 Bla. Com. 180.

The great-grandfather, proavus. 1 Bl. Comm. 186.

BESAYEL, BESAILE, or BEsaiel (Law Fr). In old English law. A great-grandfather. 1 Bl. Comm, 186. A writ (law Lat. brev. de proavo) which lay where a great-grandfather died seised o

In old English law. A writ which lay where a greatgrandfather died seised of lands and tenements in fee-simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated, or entered and kept o

A writ by which a great-grandchild secured his right to his ancestor’s property; a great-grandfather.

2 Cutting off; abrogating, canceling, annulling, nullifying, vacating, avoiding. Bescind. To annul a thing done; to vacate, set aside. Eescissory.3 Designed to abrogate, annul, av.

/. fr. and eng. A forcible taking back of goods distrained, or in the custody of the law; the forcible delivery of a defendant, or other party arrested, from the officer who is car

I In the civil law. Rescripts.

I. I. In old English and Scots law. Residence; a severe or long-continued illness, confining a person to his house.

See Like; Quasi; Similitude. RESERVATIOIf; RESERVE.* Reserve: to keep or hold back, withhold, as one thing or right out of another — the subject-matter; also, the thing withheld. R

In addition to; moreover. In provisions in a will for children "besides" an eldest son, no children take unless there be a son; 4 Dr. & War. 235. is to he delirious, sill or insane

the Court of Chancery and certain statutory powers. In modem six superior courts of equity, over which cery proper, just mentioned, had appellate (16.) Court of the Master of the

L I In old English law. A re-summons; a second summons, of one who did not appear on the first

A second summons; the summons of a person a second time to answer an action, where the firat summons is defeated, as by the death of a party, or the like.

to avoid pregnancy from their physician, plaintiff in No. 61, because if he gave it he would commit a crime.

The term “best available controls” means the degree of emissions reduction that the Administrator determines, on the basis of technological and economic feasibility, health, enviro

The term “best available control technology” means an emission limitation based on the maximum degree of reduction of each pollutant subject to regulation under this chapter emitte

the term “best available science” means science that— (A) maximizes the quality, objectivity, and integrity of information, including statistical information; (B) uses peer-reviewe