Category: B

An ancient writ to remove a bailiff from his office for want of sufficient land in the bailiwick. Reg. Orig. 78.

In English law. A knight made in the field, by the ceremony of cutting off the point of his standard, and making it, as it were, a banner. Knights so made are

To summon tenants to serve at the lord’s courts, to bring corn to be ground at his mill.

A mutual undertaking, contract, or agreement. A contract or agreement between two parties, the one to sell goods or lands, and the other to buy them. Hunt v. Adams, 5 Mass. 300,

In the civil law. A debt which bears no interest.

A tenure by villenage, or other customary service, as distinguished from tenure by military service; or from tenure by free service. Cowell.

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

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