Category: B

An inclosure formed upon the surface of a stream or other body of water, by means of piers and a chain of spars, for the purpose of collecting or storing logs or

A tenure of bord- lands.

In old English law. A recompense or compensation, or profit or advantage. Also reparation or amends for any damage done. Necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. An allowance; the

In old French law. An assemblage of houses surrounded with walls; a fortified town or village. In old English law. A borough, a village.

An instrument formerly used in some parts of England for the correction of scolds; a scolding bridle. It inclosed the head and a sharp piece of iron entered the mouth and restrained

In Saxon and old English law. A fine, penalty, or amercement imposed for defaults in the assise of bread. Cowell.

Jenk. Cent 292. A judicial writ ought to follow its original, and an accessory its principal.

One who manufactures fermented liquors of any name or description, for sale, from malt, wholly or in part, or from any substitute therefor. Act July 13, 1866,

To “bring” an action or suit has a settled customary meaning at law, and refers to the initation of legal proceedings in a suit. A suit is “brought” at the time it

In medical jurisprudence. A contusion; an injury upon the flesh of a person with a blunt or heavy instrument, without solution of continuity, or without breaking the skin. Shadock v. Road Co.,

An officially published notice or announcement concerning the progress of matters of public importance. In France, the registry of the laws.

A fine imposed on the community of a town, for a breach of the peace, etc.

In English law. The ancient punishment of sodomites, and those who contracted with Jews. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 27,

To acquire the ownership of property by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor; or by agreeing to do so ; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to

In old records. Commonalty or yeomanry, in contradistinction to baronage.

The opposite of “good faith,” generally implying or involving actual or constructive fraud, or a design to mislead or deceive another, or a neglect or refusal to fuliill some duty or some

In English law. Officers who perform the duties of sheriffs within liberties or privileged jurisdictions, in which formerly the king’s writ could not be executed by the sheriff. Spelman.

In Spanish law. Waste land; land that is neither arable nor pasture. White New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6,

In old English law. Advocates; countors; serjeants. Applied to advocates in the common pleas courts. 1 Bl. Comm. 24; Cowell.

Courts for the administration of the bankrupt laws. The present English bankruptcy courts are the London bankruptcy court, the court of appeal, and the local bankruptcy courts created by the bankruptcy act,