Law Dictionary

A quantity or pack of goods or merchandise, wrapped or packed in cloth and tightly corded. Wharton. A bale of cotton means a bale compressed so as to occupy less space than if in;

Baleuga, Banleuca. See Banleuca.

Lat. In old law. A bailiwick; the district, territory or jurisdiction of a baili£f. Spelman, voc. Balius.

ballinm, 1. 1. In old Italian law. Protection; guardianship; education; ward. v. Ballium.

ballivns, Z. ?. In old English laie. A bailiff. Balivi: bailiffs; sheriff's officers.

Fr. In French marine law. A buoy.

Ballium. L. Lat. [Ital. balio, from Or. ^alsiv, or ^al Xeiv, to commit.] In old Italian law. Protection, guardianship, education. Pupilli qui protectione balii indigere noscantur,

In civil law. A teacher; one who has the care of youth; a tutor; a guardian. Du Cange, "Bajultis;" Spelman.

or BALLIVA. Equivalent to halivatus. Bolivia, a bailiwick; the jurisdiction of a sheriff; the whole district within which the trust of the sheriff was to be executed. Cowell. Occur

Lat. A bailiwick, district, province or county. Spelman. Cowell.

Lat. A biuliwick. See Balliva.

A writ to oust a bailiff from office.

Ballivus. L. Lat. A bailiff. Nullus balivus de cetero ponat aliquem ad legem manifestam; no bailiff shall henceforth put any man to his open law. Magna Charta, c. 28. See Id. c. 35

Lat. In old English law. A bullary, or boilary; a place for boiling. Bullaria aquae salsae: a boilary of salt water; a salt-house or salt-pit, where salt is boiled.

The term “ballast” means a device used with an electric discharge lamp to obtain necessary circuit conditions (voltage, current, and waveform) for starting and operating.

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast from the bottom of the port. This arises from the property in the soil. 2 Chit. Com. Law, 16.

The term “ballast efficacy factor” means the relative light output divided by the power input of a fluorescent lamp ballast, as measured under test conditions specified in ANSI sta

The term “ballast efficiency” means, in the case of a high intensity discharge fixture, the efficiency of a lamp and ballast combination, expressed as a percentage, and calculated

The term “ballast input voltage” means the rated input voltage of a fluorescent lamp ballast.

“ballast water” means any water and associated sediments used to manipulate the trim and stability of a vessel; / The term "ballast water" means any water, suspended matt

The term "ballast water discharge standard" means— (i) the numerical ballast water discharge standard established by section 151.1511 or 151.2030 of title 33, Code of Fed

The term "ballast water exchange" means the replacement of water in a ballast water tank using 1 of the following methods: (i) Flow-through exchange, in which ballast wat

The term "ballast water management system" means any marine pollution control device (including all ballast water treatment equipment, ballast tanks, pipes, pumps, and al

Balena, (properly Balcsna). L. Lat. A large fish mentioned in Bracton; probably a kind of whale. Bract, fol. 120, 120 b. 1 Bl. Com. 222.

bal'ia, balliva, baliva, balliria, balivia, I. I. In old English law.. A bailiwick, v. Bailiwick; Non est inventus, eta

I. I In old law. To bail.

balinm, I I In old law. Protection; custody; guardianship; bail or delivery; the delivery or bailing of a person out of prison, under sureties for his appearance. Bail- or sureties

As used in this section, the term “ballistic knife” means a knife with a detachable blade that is propelled by a spring-operated mechanism. / As used in this subsection, the term “

balivus, baillius, baillivus, 1. 1. In old law. A bailiff, baily stable. A sheriff's ofl Bcer or deputy. A steward; an oi Bcer under a steward. One who acted foi', or represented a

A fortress or bulwark; also BALLIVO AMOVENDO (L. Lat. for removing a bailiff). A writ to remove a bailiff out of his office.

Baliva. L. Lat. In old law and practice. A bailiwick; the district or territory under the jurisdiction of a sheriff; a sheriff's county. Co. Litt. 61 b. Infra-nominatus A. B. non e

An ancient writ to remove a bailiff from his office for want of sufficient land in the balliwick. Reg. Orig. 78.

Balivus, Baillius, Baillivus, L. Lat. [L. Fr. bailife, baillif, bailli.] In old law. A bailiff, baily or bailie; a person to whom some authority or trust is committed or deputed. S

For purposes of this section and section 1637a of this title , the term “balloon payment” means, with respect to any open end consumer credit plan under which extensions of credit

A paper bearing the names of candidates for designated offices, and delivered by electors to the election officers in expressing their choice for such offices. It is usually printe

A case made of wood for receiving ballots.

As used in this section, the term “balloting materials” has the meaning given that term in section 107 of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. / “balloting mate

Fr. In medical jurisprudence. A test for pregnancy by palpation with the finger inserted in the vagina to the mouth of the uterus. The tip of the finger being quickly, jerked upwar

A large fish, called by Black-stone a "whale." Of this the king had the head and the queen the full as a perquisite whenever one was taken on the coast of England. 1 Bl. Comm. 222.

Thieves of clothing at the public baths.

In the Roman law, Those who stole the clothes of bathera in the public baths. 4 Ll. Comm. 239.

I. fr. and eng. A loss, hurt or hindrance sustained by a party in his estate or pereon. Bamage feasant: doing damage; a term applied to cattle found on another's land, doing damage

I. fr. and eng. A pecuniary satisfaction for an injury, given tion, as a compensation for the injury complained of. v. Compensatory damages; Double damages; Excessive damages; Gene

In Old English and Civil Law. A proclamation; a public notice; the announcement of an intended marriage. Cowell. An excommunication; a curse, publicly pronounced; proclamation of s

or BANNAL (Fr.) In old French and Canadian law. Having qualities derived from a ban or privileged space; privileged, A banal mill is one to which the seignior or lord may require h

In Canadian law. The right by virtue of which a lord subjects his vassals to grind at his mill, bake at his oven, etc. Used also of the region within which this right applied. Guyo

A bench; a meeting of all the judges.

In old English law. Advocates; countors; Serjeants. Applied to advocates in the common pleas courts. 1 Bl. Comm. 24; Cowell. BANCUS (Lat.) A bench; the seat or bench of justice; a

I. fr. Bench; a name formerly given to the English court of Queen's Bench and the court of Common Pleas, v. Bank.

The king's bench ; the supreme tribunal of the king after parliament. 3 Bl. Comm. 41.

Ital. See Banc. A seat or bench of justico; also, in commerce, a word of Italian origin signifying a bank.

Banc.

The queen's bench. See Queen's Bench.

The queen’s bench.

The king’s bench court.

The upper bench. Once the name of the king’s bench.

a company of persons, perhaps a company of armed persons, a's we may well assume to have been the case in this instance.

A man outlawed; one under ban.

Advocates in the court of common pleas.

the term “Bands” means the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians;

A malefactor. Bracton, lib. 1, tit. 8, c. 1. BANL Forfeited goods; deodand (q. v.)

or BANNERET. In Englishiaw. A knight madein the field, by the ceremony of cutting off the point of his standard, and making it, as. it were, a banner. Knights so made are accounted

In English law. A knight made in the field, by the ceremony of cutting off the point of his standard, and making it, as it were, a banner. Knights so made are acoounted so honorabl

miles banerettus, benerettus, /. /. In old English law. A banneret or knight banneret, v. Banneret.

Miles Banerettus, Benerettus. L. Lat. A banneret or knight banneret. Sjpelman. See Banneret.

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

Deodands.

a punishment inflicted upon criminals, by compelling them to quit a city, place, or country, for a specific period of time, or for life.

(A) a banking institution organized under the laws of the United States, (B) a member bank of the Federal Reserve System, (C) any other banking institution.

The regular term of a court of law, as distinguished from a sittings at nisi prius. The ancient phrase in banco, in bank or banc, once exclusively used to denote the sittings of th

Bank notes, checks and other securities for money which will be received as cash by the banks in the place where the word is used.

In this section, the term “bankable feasibility study” means a comprehensive technical and economic study— (1) of the selected option for a strategic and critical materials develop

A fund deposited by a customer of a bank into its common cash, to be drawn out by checks from time to time, as the depositor may require. in the depositor's bank book, and the othe

A promissory note issued by a bank, payable to the hearer on demand, and designed to circulate as money. Townsend v. People, 4 111. 328; Low r. People, 2 Park. Cr. R. (N. Y.) 37, S

Demand notes of a bank, ■ designed to circulate as money. See 3 Scam. (HI.) 328.

A book kept by a customer of a bank, showing the state of his account with it.

the receipt by a bank of forged notes, purporting to be its own, must be deemed an adoption of them. It has the means of knowing if they are genuine; if these means are not employe

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