Category: B

Dutch. In old New York law. A farmer.

The nonperformance of any covenant agreed to be performed, or the doing of any act Covenanted not to be done. Holthouse.

This word, in a will, may include sisters, as well as brothers, of the person indicated; it is not necessarily limited to the masculine gender. Terry v. Brunson, 1 Rich. Eq. (S.

Amicable or friendly writs; writs brought by agreement or consent of the parties.

In England. A house of correction.

In old English law. A legal maxim. “Brocardica Juris,” the title of a small book of legal maxims, published at Paris, 1508.

A name given in England to the statement annually presented to parliament by the chancellor of the exchequer, containing the estimates of the national revenue and expenditure.

An office for the transaction of business. A name given to the several departments of the executive or administrative branch of government, or to their larger subdivisions. In re Strawbridge, 39 Ala.

The title given in Germany to the chief executive officer of a borough, town, or city; corresponding to our “mayor.”

Those hours of the day during which, in a given community, commercial, banking, professional, public, or other kinds of business are ordinarily carried on. This phrase is declared to mean not the

In conveyancing. A term used to indicate that the quantity of land as stated is estimated only, not exactly measured; has the same meaning and effect as the phrase “more or less.”

A bond executed by a defendant who has been arrested, together with other persons as sureties. naming the sheriff, constable, or marshal as obligee, in a penal sum proportioned to the damages

Those assessed for a previous year or years and remaining due and unpaid from the original tax debtor. M. E. Church v. New Orleans, 107 La. 611. 32 South. 101; Gaines v.

A sack or satchel. A certain and customary quantity of goods and merchandise in a sack. Wharton.

In Canadian law. The unpaid vendor of real estate.

Lat In old English law. A bailiwick, or jurisdiction.

The king’s bench; the supreme tribunal of the king after parliament. 3 BL. Comm. 41.

In old law, one under a ban, (q. v.;) an outlaw or banished man. Britt cc. 12, 13; Calvin.

(Modern Fr. hrcbis.) Sheep. See Millen v. Fawen, Bendloe, 171, “home ove petit chien chase barbitts.”

In maritime law. An act committed by the master or mariners of a vessel, for some unlawful or fraudulent purpose, contrary to their duty to the owners, whereby the latter sustain injury.