Category: B

In old European law. Good men; a name given in early European Jurisprudence to the tenants of the lord, who judged each other in the lord’s courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 349.

In Pennsylvania practice. The act of 2Sth March. 1895.

A cottage.

In English law. The revenues of a municipal borough derived from the rents and produce of the land, houses, and stocks belonging to the borough in its corporate capacity, and supplemented where

When a broker is employed to buy and sell goods, he is accustomed to give to the buyer a note of the sale, commonly called a “sold note,” and to the seller

Manufacturers of tiows and shafts. An ancient company of the city of London.

The offense of actually and forcibly breaking a prison or gaol, with intent to escape. 4 Chit. Bl. 130, notes; 4 Steph. Comm. 255. The escape from custody of a person lawfully

A writ. An original writ. A writ or precept of the king issuing out of his courts. A writ by which a person is summoned or attached to answer an action, complaint,

Certain writs of approved and established form which were granted of course in actions to which they were applicable, and which could not be changed but by consent of the great council

In the location of a private way laid out by the selectmen, and accepted by the town, a description of it as a “bridle road” does not confine the right of way

In maritime law. That space in a ship which is not filled by her cargo.

See LINE.

A name anciently given to a dwelling-house in a borough town. Blount

Sepulture; the act of interring dead human bodies. See Lay v. State, 12 Ind. App. 362, 39 N. E. 768; In re Reformed, etc.. Church, 7 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 476; Cemetery

A privilege formerly allowed to the king’s butler, to take a certain part of every cask of wine imported by an alien.

In English law. The chief men of a town, representing the inhabitauts.

Equity assists ignorance, but not carelessness.

Sax. Bearing upon the back or about the person. Applied to a thief taken with the stolen property in his immediate possession. Bract 1, 3, tr. 2, c. 32. Used with handlmbend,

To procure the release of a person from legal custody, by undertaking that he shall appear at the time and place designated and submit himself to the jurisdiction and judgment of the

contract in which the bailor agrees to pay an adequate recompense for the safe-keeping of the thing intrusted to the custody of the bailee, and the bailee agrees to keep it and