Law Dictionary

fr. In old English law. To dehver; to lend. v. Bailler.

In old English law. Bailiff. This term is used in the laws of the colony of New Plymouth, Mass. A. D. 1670, 1671.

A stream which is the outlet of a swamp near the sea. Applied to the creeks in the lowlands lying on the Gulf of Mexico.

In the Roman civil law, it is laid down, that, to constitute a river or running stream, as contradistinguished from torrents and temporary water-courses, the flow of water must be

A window projecting from the wall of a building so as to form a recess or bay within and, properly speaking, rising from tbe ground or basement, with straight sides only; but the t

A light-house, or sea-mark, formerly used to alarm the country, in case of the approach of an enemy, but now used -EACONAGE. Money paid for the tenance of a beacon or signal-light,

The term “BBEDCA” means the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

' An agent employed to make bargains and contracts between other persons in matters of trade, commerce or navigation, for a compensation commonly called brokerage.* Brokerage. The

Commenced. In the legislation of Congress on the subject of limitation of actions, "commenced" and "brought" mean the same thing. * A suit is brought when it is instituted or comme

Brigbote. Sax. [from brug, or brig, a bridge, and bote, reparation.] In old English law. A tribute or contribution towards the repairing of bridges. Quietum esse a brugbote; to be

See Cruelty; Whipping-post.

An abbreviation for "before Christ," "bail court," "bankruptcy eases," and "British Columbia."

The term “BCAP” means the Biomass Crop Assistance Program established under this section.

The term “BCAP project area” means an area that— (A) has specified boundaries that are submitted to the Secretary by the project sponsor and subsequently approved by the Secretary;

A term which corresponds to the beneficium inventarii of Roman law, and substantially to the English law doctrine that the executor properly accounting is only liable to the extent

An abbreviation for "Baron of the Court of Exchequer."

He who bears or carries a thing; he who presents for payment a bill, check, or note, transferable by delivery. A note payable to "A or bearer" is negotiable without indorsement, an

See Foreshore; Sea-Shore.

A light-house or sca-mark, formerly used to alarm the country, in case of the approach of an enemy, but how used for the guidance of ships at sea, by night, as well as by day.

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon. Oomyn, Dig. "Navigation" (H). BEADLE (Saxon, beodan, to bid). A church servant chosen by the vestry, whose business it is to attend the

A court crier; a parish officer whose duties resembled those of a constable.

Instruments for weighing goods and merchandise.

To support, sustain or carry; to give rise toj or to produce, something else as an incident or auxillary. —Bear arms. To carry arms as weapons and with reference to their military

"In the rear of" a messuage does not necessarily mean directly behind the messuage.^

as the petitioners and the dissent think, the carrying of arms only for military purposes, one simply cannot add "for the purpose of killing game." The right "to carry arms in the

One who bears or carries a thing. dorsement, and whoever fairly acquires a right to it may maintain an action against the drawer or acceptor.

This Court has uniformly held that a note payable to bearer is payable to any body, and not affected by the disabilities of the nominal payee.

Such as bear down or oppress others; maintainers.

See Date; Interest, 2(3).

Words frequently used in pleading and conveyancing to introduce the date which has been put upon an instrument. When, in a declaration, the plaintiff alleges that the defendant mad

To generate interest, so that the instrument or loan spoken of shall produce or yield interest at the rate specified by the parties or granted by law. Slaughter v. Slaughter, 21 In

Four-footed animals. They were anciently divided into "beasts of the plow," — ^those used in husbandry; "beasts of the chase," — ^the buck, doe, fox, marten, and roe; "beasts of th

In Suffolk, England, imports land and common for one beast. 2 Strange, 1084; Rose. Real Actions, 485.

Wild beasts which are hunted; the buck, doe, fox, marten and roe.

Beasts of the chase and hart, hind, hare, boar and wolf.

Same as Beasts of the forest.

An old term for animals employed in the operations of husbandry, including horses. Somers v. Bmer-son, 58 N. H. 49.

The hare, coney, pheasant and partridge.

See "Assault.." BEAUPLEADER (Law Fr. fair pleading). A writ of prohibition directed to the sheriff or other, directing him not to take a fine for beaupleader. There was anciently a

An ancient custom in England by which, once a year, the minister, etc., of a parish walked about its boundaries to preserve a recollection of them. Cent. Diet. (Perambulation). BEA

A celebrated French law writer, nearly or quite contemporary with the English Bracton, whose work, entitled Coustumes de Beauvoi-sis, contains the whole body of the law and practic

A writ prohibiting the taking of a fine for ill-pleading; bad pleading.

To plead fairly. In English law. An obsolete writ upon the statute of Marlbridge, (52 Hen. III. c. 11,) winch enacts that neither in the circuits of the justices, nor in counties,

by reason of: on account of." 1 Webster's Third New International Dictionary 194 (1966); see also 1 Oxford English Dictionary 746 (1933) (defining "because of" to mean "By reason "

the "cause of the adverse effect" rather than the "motive for the employer's action." See "ante," at 235-236.

The terms “because of sex” or “on the basis of sex” include, but are not limited to, because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; and women a

both intentional and disparate-impact claims should have made it clear that the reasoning in the opinion was equally applicable to both types of claims.

One who receives anything belonging to another or others. 1. One who receives stolen goods. See further Steaj,. 3. A person appointed by a court of equity to take charge of propert

L fr. To reclaim; to make a claim; to challenge.

I To recover; to regain, v. Quod recuperet.

recognisance. An acknowledgment upon record; an acknowledgment of a debt upon record; an obligation of record, entered into before a court or a magistrate duly authorized, with con

To bind or to become bound by a recognizance. In old English law. To examine, or try; to inquire so as to know.

One in whose favor a recognizance is executed, v. Cognigee.

One who executes a recognizance, v. Cognizor.

I. In old English laiv. To acknowledge; to recognize, that is, to try or examine, as a jury; to inquire so as to know the truth; to know again; to call to remembrance.

I. 2. In old English law. An assise; a jury, as distinguished from an assise proper; the vei-diot of an assise; an acknowledgment; a recognizance.

A cross-demand,— a term derived from the reconventio of the civil law, and in use in Louisiana and Texas.

recoop. To defalk or discount ages by cutting out or keepiug back

Defalcation or discount of something which is due, because withhold it; a reduction or diminution satisfaction of a claim arising out action arises, as in an action on a defects in

A going back, as to a former ment who has transferred it by words " without recourse."

I. In the civil and canon law. A cross-demand by the reus upon the actor; a proceeding in the nature of a cross-bill in equity.

I. fr. A recognizance to keep the peace; the inquisition of an assise or jury.

To preserve the memory of by writing; to transcribe into something permanent for reference; to enter in books, to preserve as a memorial, as a deed or proceeding in court

A memorial of a thing done; a writing preserved as evidence; a transcription into something permanent for preservation as a memorial; a written account, in England in rolls of parc

Ifr. Tn old English law. judge to a jury.

The chief judicial ofl Scer criminal matters the jurisdiction criminal judge of a city. In American law. In some of the Ohio, a register of deeds. In old English law. A person whom

II In old English and sunt vestig'ia vetustatis et veritatis: tiquity and of truth, v. Prout patet,

In old conveyancing, the recovery.

I. In the dvil and canon law. To make a cross-demand upon the actor.

4 A going back; resort. ■Without recourse. By the use of these words the holder of negotiable paper may transfer title without incurring the responsibility of an indorser.5 See Ind

To obtain by course of law; to succeed in an action.

reco Trir, I. fr. To recover of law.

In old conveyancing, the process of a common recovery. •

The obtaining a thing by result of an action brought for the

I. fr. and eng., Becreantus, ardly; faint-hearted; yielding to defeat To record. Recordari facias lobe recorded; a writ by' which a removed from a county court to Recorder. It is r

A counter-accusation; an accusation made by an accused party against the accuser; a set-off by a defendant in a suit for a divorce, on the ground of adultery, of equal guilt on the

rettatns, I. I. In old English law. Suspected; accused; charged; summoned to answer an accusation.

I. I In Saxon and old English law. A right or legal due. Bectitndines: rights.

I. and eng. In English ecclesiastical law, the governor of a church; a person having the care ot a parish church; a clerk having full possession of a living and tithes, v. Parson.

In English ecclesiastical law, the o£Bce of a rector; an entire parish church, with all its rights, otherwise commonly called a benefice; a rector's manse, or parsonage house.

I. In old English law. Right; law; a right claimed by a party; a right to land claimed by the writ called a writ of right; an accusation or charge of crime; suspicion of crime.

I. In old English law. Recovery; restitution by judgment of a thing wrongfully taken or detained.

In English law. Persons who refused to attend the service of the Church of England, or to conform to its ceremonies, or to take the oath against papists.

The channel of a stream; the part between the hanks worn by the regular flow of the water. See Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. (U. S.) 426, 14 L. Ed. 189. The phrase divorce from bed

AL#. <A witness testifies on “hbebalf” of the party who calls him, notwithstanding his evidence proves to be adverse to that party’s case. 65 Ill, 274, See, further, 12 Q. B. 693;

A divorce from, is one separating the parties without dissolving the marriage.

Z. L- Rendering; yielding; tbe technical name of a clause in a conveyance by which the grantor creates or reserves some new thing to himself. Keddens causain scienti%, I I. In Scot

I. I. Rendering; the formal word by which in old conveyancing a rent was reserved to a grantor. Beddendo inde per annum, tantam, ad certos termlnos tales: rendering therefor so muc

L In old English law. To render; to pay; to give or yield. In the eivil law. To give back; to restore.

LI In old English law. A rental or rent-roll.

reditus, I. I. In old English law. A rent; a payment; a thing rendered, paid or yielded. Bedditns siccus: rent seek; dry or barren rent

In old English law. A judicial confession and acknowledgment that a thing in demand belonged to the demandant, or, at least, not to the person so confessing.

A hospital or almshouse for bedesmen or poor people who prayed for their founders and benefactors; from the Saxon biddan, to pray. Cunningham.

I. I. In old English lato. A ransom or fine.

In English law. A crier or messenger of court, who summons men to appear and answer therein. Cowell. An inferior officer in a parish or liberty. See "Beadle."

The jurisdiction of a bedel, as a bailiwick is the jurisdiction of a bailiff. Co. Litt. 234b; Cowell.

Lat. A beadle. Spelman, A hayward. Towns, PI. 35.

A purchasing of a thing which the purchaser formerly owned. Bedemption, equity of: the defeating of the title of a mortgagee by performance of the condition of the mortgage, or by

I Returning; while returning.

A service binding the tenant to reap the landlord’s corn.