Category: B

At common law. Anticipating or preventive writs. Six were included in this category, viz.: Writ of mesne; warrantia chartce; monstraverunt; audita querela; curia clauden- da; and ne injuste vexes. Peters v. Linen-

A structure erected over a river, creek, stream, ditch, ravine, or other place, to facilitate the passage thereof; including by the term both arches and abutments. Bridge Co. v. Railroad Co., 17

In old English and Scotch law. A broker; a middleman between buyer and seller; the agent of both transacting parties. Bell; Cowell.

A carnal copulation against nature; and this is either by the confusion of species,

A system in which the business of government is carried on in departments, each under the control of a chief, in contradistinction from a system in which the officers of government have

See LEX BUBGUNDIONUM.

In old English law. The barons of a county.

In old English criminal practice. The established formula of reply by a prisoner, when arraigned at the bar, to the question, “Culprit, how wilt thou be tried?”

Statutes which provide that a bona fide occupant of real estate making lasting improvements in good faith shall have a lien upon the estate recovered by the real owner to the extent

In forest law. Carrying on the back. One of the cases in which an offender against vert and venison might be arrested, as being taken with the mainour, or manner, or found

A chest or coffer. Fleta.

A delivery of goods or personal property, by one person to another, in trust for the execution of a special object upon or in relation to such goods, beneficial either to the

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast from the bottom of a port or harbor.

An outlaw; a man banned, or put under a ban ; a brigand or robber. Banditti, a band of robbers.

We ban or expel. The form of expulsion of a member from the University of Oxford, by affixing the sentence in some public places, as a promulgation of it. Cowell.

A wrangling suit. Britt. c. 92; Co. Litt. 3G86.

A measure of capacity, equal to thirty-six gallons. In agricultural and mercantile parlance, as also in the inspection laws, the term “barrel” means, prima facie, not merely a certain quantity, but, further,

In feudal law. Such services as were unworthy to be performed by the nobler men, and were performed by the peasants and those of servile rank. 2 Bl. Comm. 61.

Trial by combat; wager of battel.

An animal; a domestic animal; a quadruped, such as may be used for food or in labor or for sport.