Category: B

A writ is so called because it briefly states, in few words, the matter in dispute, and the object of the party seeking relief. 2 Inst. 39.

A writ or mandate to a sheriff to deliver to his successor the county, and appurtenances, with the rolls, briefs, remembrance, and all other things belonging to his office. Reg. Orig. 295.

In Saxon and old English law. A tribute or contribution towards the’ repairing of bridges.

See BRIGBOTE.

A seal used by the Roman emperors, during the lower empire; and which was of four kinds,

A roll, required by the St 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 76, to be kept in corporate towns or boroughs, of the names of burgesses entitled to certain new rights conferred

A treasurer of a college.

A local term in the north of England, for the associate or deputy of another ; also of things used in common.

In practice. The sureties who procure the release of a person under arrest, by becoming responsible for his appearance at the time and place designated. Those persons who become sureties for the

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

Substantially defective; inapt; not good. The technical word for unsoundness in pleading.

A bailiff’s deputy

Small galleries of wood or stone on the outside of houses. The erection of them is regulated In London by the building acts.

Bench; the seat of judgment; the place where a court permanently or regularly sits. The full bench, full court. A “sitting in banc” is a meeting of all the judges of a

1. The state or condition of one who is a bankrupt; amenability to the bankrupt laws; the condition of one who has committed an act of bankruptcy, and is liable to be

In English law. A fee taken by the sheriff, time out of mind, for every prisoner who is acquitted. Bac. Abr. “Extortion.” Abolished by St. 14 Geo. III. c. 2G; 55 Geo.

Husband and wife. A wife being under the protection and influence of her baron, lord, or husband, is styled a “fcme-covcrt,” (fccmina viro cooperta,) and her state of marriage is called her

Low; inferior; subordinate.

The method provided by statute of proceeding” against the putative father to secure a proper maintenance for the bastard.

A light-house, or sea-mark, formerly used to alarm the country, in case of the approach of an enemy, but now used for the guidance of ships at sea, by night, as well