Category: B

A gratuity. A premium paid to a grantor or vendor. An extra consideration given for what is received. Any premium or advantage; an occasional extra dividend. A premium paid by a company

Certain rent corn, anciently so called. Cowell.

In Saxon law. The name given to the head of each family composing a tithing.

In old Scotch law. A park where cattle are Inclosed and fed. Bothna also signifies a barony, lordship, etc. Skene.

Dutch. In old New York law. A farm; a farm on which the farmer’s family resided.

The unlawful or unwarrantable entry on another person’s soil, land, or [close. 3 Bl. Comm. 209.

In the civil law. Persons appointed to take care of houses destined to receive foundlings.

Adversary writs; writs brought by an adversary to recover land. 6 Coke, 67.

An engine by which walls were beaten down. Blount.

The wages, commission, or pay of a broker, (also called “brokerage.”) Also the avocation or business of a broker.

A toil, net, or snare, to take deer. 4 Inst. 306.

(Lat. onus probandi.) In the law of evidence. The necessity or duty of affirmatively proving a fact or facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause. Willett

In criminal law. The breaking and entering the house of another in the night-time, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felony be actually committed or not. Anderson v. State,

This word embraces everything about which a person can be employed. People v. Com’rs of Taxes, 23 N. Y. 242, 244. That which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for

In practice. Terms anciently used to designate actions commenced by original hill, as distinguished from those commenced by original writ, and applied in modern practice to suits commenced by capias ad respondendum.

Those assessed for a previous year or years and remaining due and unpaid from the original tax debtor. M. E. Church v. New Orleans, 107 La. 611. 32 South. 101; Gaines v.

A sack or satchel. A certain and customary quantity of goods and merchandise in a sack. Wharton.

In Canadian law. The unpaid vendor of real estate.

Lat In old English law. A bailiwick, or jurisdiction.

The king’s bench; the supreme tribunal of the king after parliament. 3 BL. Comm. 41.