Category: B

The person in whose favor a promissory note or bill of exchange is payable; or any person in whose favor a contract of any description is executed. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 547.

In its original sense, the phrase denoted the exemption which was accorded to clergymen from the jurisdiction of the secular courts, or from arrest or attachment on criminal process issuing from those

In old English law, a sheepfold; also a place where the bark of trees was laid to tan.

Mutual promise of marriage; the plighting of troth; a mutual promise or contract between a man and wo- If man competent to make it to marry at a future time.

A cart or chariot drawn with two horses, coupled side to side: but it is said to be properly a cart with two heels, sometimes drawn by one horse; and

A bill in equity, to obtain a reexamination and reversal of a decree, filed by one who was not a party to the original suit, nor hound by the decree.

In English law. A license granted at the custom-house to a merchant, to suffer him to trade from one English port to another, without paying custom. Cowell. 12. In criminal law, a

The act of being born or wholly brought into separate existence. Wallace v. State, 10 Tex. App. 270.

In English law. Heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, as grouse.

In old English law. Grain; particularly corn.

The naino of a board of officers appointed for the better local management of the English metropolis. They have the care and management of all grounds and gardens dedicated to the use

An organized and systematic collection of rules of jurisprudence; as, particularly, the body of the civil law, or corpus juris civilis.

Good memory. Generally used in the phrase sance mentis et bonce memories, of sound mind and good memory, as descriptive of the mental capacity of a testator.

It is the part of a good judge to enlarge (or use liberally) his remedial authority or Jurisdiction. Ch. Prec. 329; 1 Wils. 284.

A term applied to the records of a surrogate’s court. 8 East 187.

In old English law. Tenants of a less servile condition than the villani. who had a bord or cottage, with a small parcel of land, allowed to them, on condition they should

Borough- holders, bors-holders, or burs-holders.

The word “boulevard,” which originally indicated a bulwark or rampart, and was afterwards applied to a public walk or road on the site of a demolished fortification, is now employed in the

A conspiracy formed and intended directly or indirectly to prevent the carrying on of any lawful business, or to Injure the business of any one by wrongfully preventing those who would be

Any act done by a trustee contrary to the terms of his trust, or in excess of his authority and to the detriment of the trust; or the wrongful omission by a