Category: B

Any unlawful beating, or other wrongful physical violence or constraint, inflicted on a human being without his consent. 2 Bish. Crim. Law,

In English law. The buck, doe, fox, martin, and roe. Co. Litt. 233a.

A land measure used in the East Indies. In Bengal it is equal to about a third part of an acre.

A term which corresponds to the bene/icium in- ventarii of Roman law, and substantially to the English law doctrine that the executor properly accounting is only liable to the extent of the

In the civil law. The release of a debtor from future imprisonment for his debts, which the law operates in his favor upon the surrender of his property for the benefit of

A gift by will of personal property; a legacy. A specific bequest is one whereby the testator gives to the legatee all his property of a certain class or kind; as all

An agreement between two or more persons that a sum of money or other valuable thing, to which all jointly contribute, _ shall become the sole property of one or f some

In English law. Property of every description, except estates of freehold and inheritance. Sugd. Vend. 495; Co. Litt. 119!). In French law. This term Includes all kinds of property, real and personal.

One which is filed by a mortgagee against the mortgagor, for the purpose of having the estate sold, thereby to obtain the sum mortgaged on the premises, with interest and costs. 1

In English law. A kind of license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for their voyage, custom free. Jacob.

A cap or coif used formerly in England by judges and serjeants at law. Spelman.

A name given collectively to the body of laws, statutes, and rules in force in various southern states prior to 1805, which regulated the institution of slavery, and particularly those forbidding their

In English law. Blasphemy is the offense of speaking matter relating to God, Jesus Christ, the Bible, or the Book of Common Prayer, intended to wound the feelings of mankind or to

Under the system obtaining in some of the northern states, this name is given to an organized committee, or body of officials, composed of delegates from the several townships in a county,

The main and operative part; the substantive provisions, as distinguished from the recitals, title, jurat, etc.

In the Roman law. By mutual consent; voluntarily. A term applied to a species of divorce where the parties separated by mutual consent; or where the parties renounced their marital engagements without

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