Category: B

Adversary writs; writs brought by an adversary to recover land. 6 Coke, 67.

An engine by which walls were beaten down. Blount.

The wages, commission, or pay of a broker, (also called “brokerage.”) Also the avocation or business of a broker.

A toil, net, or snare, to take deer. 4 Inst. 306.

(Lat. onus probandi.) In the law of evidence. The necessity or duty of affirmatively proving a fact or facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause. Willett

In criminal law. The breaking and entering the house of another in the night-time, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felony be actually committed or not. Anderson v. State,

This word embraces everything about which a person can be employed. People v. Com’rs of Taxes, 23 N. Y. 242, 244. That which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for

In practice. Terms anciently used to designate actions commenced by original hill, as distinguished from those commenced by original writ, and applied in modern practice to suits commenced by capias ad respondendum.

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.

In old English law. One who made a practice of buying corn or victuals in one place, and carrying them to another to sell and make profit by them.

The territorial jurisdiction of a sheriff or bailiff. 1 Bl. Comm. 344. Greenup v. Bacon. 1 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 108.

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

The queen’s bench. See QUEEN’S BENCH.

See BANERET.

In old European law. Money paid to support a barbican or watchtower.

In old practice. A plea in bar. The bar of the court A barrister.

In English law. Any inferior court that is not of record, as a court baron, etc. Kitch. 95, 96; Cowell.

In English law. A military order of knighthood,, instituted by Richard II. The order was newly regulated by notifications in the London Gazette of 25th May, 1847, and 16th August, 1S50. Wharton.

To carry arms as weapons and with reference to their military use, not to wear them about the person as part of the dress. Aymette v. State, 2 Humph. (Tenn.) 158. As

A liquor compounded of malt and hops. In its ordinary sense, denotes a beverage which is intoxicating, and is within the fair meaning of the words “strong or spirituous liquors,” used in