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A term used by the old writers to distinguish one parcel of land from another, to avoid ambiguity, as well as the inconvenience of a fuller description. "White acre" is also so use

Fictitious names of parcels of land nsed in the discussions of law-writers.

In English law. The act of parliament 9 Geo. II. c. 22. This act was passed for the punishment of certain marauders, who committed great outrages disguised and with faces blackened

Old Scotch statutes passed in the reigns of the Stuarts and down to the year 1586 or 1587. So called because printed in black letter. Bell, Diet.; Wharton.

In English law. An old record frequently referred to by Cowell and other early writers.

An ancient book compiled in the reign of Edward III. It has always been deemed of the highest authority in matters concerning the admiralty. It contains the laws of Oleron, at larg

The name of a book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties, conventions, charters, etc.

It is a vulgar error that the headdress worn by the judge in pronouncing the sentence of death is assumed as an emblem of the sentence., It is part of the judicial full dress, and

A name given collectively to the body of laws, statutes, and rules in force in various southern states prior to 1865, which regulated the institution of slavery, and particularly t

Heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, as grouse.

A professed gambler, a person who makes a business of betting — not necessarily dishonest, though disreputable: 3 H. & N. 376; 31 L. T. O. S. 217, per Pollock, C. B. In the same ca

A list of persons marked out for special avoidance, antagonism or enmity on the part of those who prepare the list or those among whom it is intended to circulate; as where a trade

A list of names of persons kept for the purpose of prohibiting or recommending against dealings with them. The publication of such a list is libellous per se unless justified or pr

See Boycotting. An act of Wisconsin, approved April 8, 1887 (Laws, ch. 349), provides that: Any two or more employees who shall agree, combine, and confederate together for the pur

The term “Black Lung Acts” means part C of title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, and any State law providing compensation for disability or death due to that

For purposes of this section, the term “black lung benefit claim” means a claim for compensation for disability or death due to pneumoconiosis under part C of title IV of the Feder

Tribute levied by marauders who operated on the Scotch border.

Rents reserved, payable in work, grain, and the like. Such rents were called "black mail" (reditus nigri), in distinction from white rents (blanche firmes), which were rents paid i

A closed wagon or van in which prisoners are carried to and from the jall or between the court and the jail.

The term “blackout period” means, in connection with an individual account plan, any period for which any ability of participants or beneficiaries under the plan, which is otherwis

Rents reserved in work, grain, or baser money than silver. Whishaw.

GENTLEMAN USHER OF. A chief officer of the king, deriving his name from the black rod of office, on the top of which reposes a golden lion, which he carries. During the session of

See Citizen; School, Separate; White.

Jr. 32, 13 Fed. Cas. (U. S.) 50.

See Police, 2. Is not a nuisance per se. The business may be so carried on as not to annoy persons living in the vicinity. ' See Nuisance.

The term "black start exercise" means an exercise in which delivery of energy provided from off an installation is terminated before backup generation assets on the insta

Sir William. Born July 10, 1723. In 1736 he entered Pembroke College, Oxford, where he continued till 1741, when he began to study law. In 1746, at the end of the probationary peri

The term “blackstrap molasses” means the commercially so-designated “byproduct” of the cane-sugar industry, not used for human consumption or for the extraction of sugar.

A subvassal, who held ward of the king's vassal.

Growing crops of grain. Spelman. Any annual crop. Cowell. Used of crops, either growing or gathered. Reg. Orig. 94b; Coke, 2d Inst. 81.

Growing corn, grain or crops.

I. I. In old English corn-chandler; a bladier, or

In old English law. A corn monger; meal man or corn chandler; a bladier, or engrosser of corn or grain. Blount; 2 Inst. 81.

The term "blade" means an airfoil-shaped blade which is responsible for converting wind energy to low-speed rotational energy.

I. I. In old English crop; grain cut, or harvested.

blasmed, I, fr. Infamous. Blackmail: extortion by threats, as of one's reputation, etc. statute of 9 Geo. I, c. 33, enacted to puncommitted near Walthara, in Hampshire; so acts wer

A rent reserved, payable in silver. BLANCUS (Law Lat.) In old law and practice. White, as paper or parchment is when there is no writing or other mark upon it; otherwise called alb

In Scotch law. A tenure by which land is held. The duty is generally a trifling one, as a peppercorn. It may happen, however, that the duty is of greater value, and then the distin

Cwrte blanche (a. v.) See 6 Mart. (La.) 718.

Blank.

A space left In writing, to be filled up with one or more words to complete sense. A skeleton document, in which the formal words are printed, and blanks left for the

An acceptance written on the paper before the bill is made, and delivered by the acceptor. In England it will charge the acceptor to the extent warranted by the stamp.

See "Common Bar."

The delivery of a bill of exchange signed and indorsed in blank only authorizes the receiver, as between himself and the drawer and indorser, to fill it up in conformity with the a

Scotch securities, in which the creditor's name was left blank, and which passed by mere delivery, the bearer being at liberty to put in his name, and sue for payment. Declared voi

The terms “blank check company”, “rollup transaction”, “partnership”, “limited liability company”, “executive officer of an entity” and “direct participation investment program”, h

A ballot on which all the names of candidates to be voted for at the election appear.

“blanket encumbrance” means a trust deed, mortgage, judgment, or any other lien or encumbrance, including an option or contract to sell or a trust agreement, affecting a subdivisio

The evident purpose of this section, as its history and context show, was not to preclude mandatory injunctions, but to forbid blanket injunctions against labor unions, which are u

The term “blanket license” means a compulsory license described in subsection (d)(1)(A) to engage in covered activities.

Letters patent including several devices each of which would be patentable.

A fire insurance policy not on particular goods, but on whatever there may be at a certain time, of a varying quantity, as on a stock of goods subject to sale and replenishing. See

a system in which "any person, regardless of party affiliation, may vote for a party's nominee." California Democratic Party v. Jones, 530 U. S. 567, 576, n. 6 (2000).

Also called the "common bar." The name of a plea in bar which in an action of trespass is put in to oblige the plaintiff to assign the certain place where the trespass was committe

the right of a bon a fide holder of a bill to write over a blank indorsement, to whom the bill shall be paid, at any time before or after the institution of a suit against the indo

A kind of white money (value 8d). coined by Henry V. in those parts of France which were then subject to England; forbidden to be current in that realm by 2 Hen. VI. c. 9. Wharton.

An incendiary. Blount.

In criminal law. To attribute to God that which is contrary to his nature, and does not belong to him, and to deny what does. A false reflection uttered with a malicious design of

A mode of rending rock and other solid substances by means of explo sives. Blasting rock in the city of New York is necessary and therefore legal; Gourdier v. Cormack, 2 E. D. Sm.

“Blasting agent” means any material or mixture, consisting of fuel and oxidizer, intended for blasting, not otherwise defined as an explosive: Provided , That the finished product,

In old English law. Grain; particularly corn.

Grain which has been cut.

I. fr. In old English law. Blemishment; infringement; diminution; disparagement or degradation.

blench-holding. v. Blanc; Blanch-holding.

See Blanch Holding.

Same as Blanch-holding.

For purposes of subsection (j), subject to paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), the term “blended benchmark amount” means for an area— (A) for 2012 the sum of— (i) ½ of the applicable amo

The term “blended financing” means financing provided through any combination of official development assistance, official export credits, and private commercial credit which is in

In England, where a testator directs his real and personal estate to be sold, and disposes of the proceeds as forming one aggregate, this is called a "blended fund." The expression

the uniform price less administrative deductions.

the term “blending of financings” means the use of various combinations of official development assistance, official export credit, and private commercial credit, integrated into a

The term “blighted area” means any area which the governing body described in subparagraph (A) determines to be a blighted area on the basis of the substantial presence of factors

"blind" means an individual who has central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting lens or whose eye is accompanied by a limitatio

As used in this subsection, the term "blind external proficiency test" means a test that is presented to a forensic laboratory through a second agency and appears to the

The term "blind or other persons with print disabilities" means children served under this chapter and who may qualify in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act to

“blind person” means a person whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses or whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompan

In old English law. Boughs broken down from trees and thrown in a way where deer are likely to pass. Jacob.

A square or portion of a city or town inclosed by streets, whether partially or wholly occupied by buildings or containing only vacant lots. Ottawa v. Barney, 10 Kan. 270; Fraser v

A blockade is just as much violated by a vessel passing outwards as inwards. A blockade is a sort of circumvallation round a place, by which all foreign connection and corresponden

The right to blockade an enemy's port with a competent force, is a right secured to every belligerent by the law of nations. No neutral can, after knowledge of such blockade, lawfu

Conditioning the license or sale of one or more feature films upon the acceptance by the station of a package or block containing one or more unwanted or inferior films.

In this clause, the term “block claim” has the meaning given the term in section 226.2 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).

The term “blocked asset”— (A) means any asset seized or frozen by the United States under section 4305(b) of title 50 or under section 202 or 203 of the International Emergency Eco

“block grant amounts” means amounts received for a program that— (A) directly allocates amounts to States only, except for amounts allocated for use by the agency administering the

The term "block machine" means a piece of equipment that utilizes vibration and compaction to form concrete masonry products.

That under that warrant, together with a number of others then in his hands, he surveyed what, in that country, is called a block of surveys, (by which we understand a number of co

The term “block trade” means any trade of at least 10,000 shares or with a market value of at least $200,000 which will be allocated across two or more unrelated client accounts of

I. I. In old English law. An amerciament for the shedding of blood. V. Bloodwit.

sax. An amerciament for the

Relationship; stock; family. 1 Rop. Leg. 103; 1 Belt, Supp. Ves. 365. Kindred. Bac. Max. reg. 18. Brothers and sisters are said to be of the whole blood if they have the same fathe

A brother by birth.

the term “blood components” means those constituents of whole blood which are used for therapy and which are obtained by physical separation processes which result in licensed prod

the term “blood fractions” means those constituents of plasma which are used for therapy and which are obtained by licensed fractionation processes presently used in manufacturing

An irresistible impulse for bloodshed.

Evidence from the tracking of a prisoner by bloodhounds is not permissible until it is shown that they were reliable and accurate; State v. Adams, 85 Kan. 435, 116 Pac. 608, 35 L.

Money paid to the relatives of one killed by another. Money paid as a reward for the conviction of one charged with a capital offense.

<Anamercement for bloadshed. Cowell. The privilege of taking such amercemenis. Skene. A privilege or exemption from paying a

An amercement for. bloodshed. Cowell. The privilege of taking such amercements. Skene de Verb. Sign. A privilege or exemption from paying a fine or amercement assessed for bloodshe

A hand stained with deer’s blood, evidence of trespass.

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