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The second letter of the English alphabet : is used to denote the second of a series of pages, notes, etc.; the subsequent letters, the third and following numbers.

An abbreviation for “before Christ.” “bail court,” “bankruptcy cases,” and “British Columbia.”

An abbreviation for “Baron of the Court of Exchequer.”

An abbreviation for ‘bonum factum, a good or proper act, deed, or decree; signifies “approved.”

Manufacturers of tiows and shafts. An ancient company of the city of London.

An abbreviation for Bancus Regis, (King’s Bench,) or Bancus Regince, (Queen’s Bench.) It is frequently found in the old books as a designation of that court. In more recent usage, the initial letters of the English names are ordinarily employed, i. e., K. B. or Q. B.

Bancus Superior, that is, upper bench.

plea of infancy, interposed for the purpose of defeating an action upon a contract made while the person was a minor, is vulgarly called “pleading the baby act.” By extension, the term is applied to a plea of the statute of limitations.

This term applies to a plea in a contract dispute where the action of the opposing party isn’t valid as the defendant was a minor.

In old records. Commonalty or yeomanry, in contradistinction to baronage.

The holder of the first or lowest degree conferred by a college or university, e. g., a bachelor of arts, bachelor of law, etc. A kind of inferior knight; an esquire. A man who has never been married.

the degree that is conferred upon graduation from a college of law and is abbreviated to L.L.B.

A term of no very definite import, but generally signifying lands lying back from (not contiguous to) a highway or a watercourse. See Ryerss v. Wheeler, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 150.