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BONO ET MALO

A special writ of jail delivery, which formerly issued of course for each particular prisoner. 4 Bl. Comm. 270.

BOOMAGE

A charge on logs for the use of a boom in collecting, storing, or rafting them. Lumber Co. v. Thompson, 83 Miss. 499, 35 South. 828. A right of entry on riparian

BOREL-FOLK

Country people; derived from the French bourre, (Lat. floccus.) a lock of wool, because they covered their heads with such stuff. Blount.

BOTELESS

In old English law. Without amends ; without the privilege of making satisfaction for a crime by a pecuniary payment ; without relief or remedy. Cowell.

BREHON

In old Irish law. A judge. 1 Bl. Comm. 100. Brehons, (brcitheamhuin,> judges.

BRIBE

Any valuable thing given or promised, or any preferment, advantage, privilege, or emolument, given or promised corruptly and against the law, as an inducement to any person acting in an official or

BRINGING MONEY INTO COURT

The act of depositing money in the custody of a court or of its clerk or marshal, for the purpose of satisfying a debt or duty, or to await the result of

BRUKBARN

In old Swedish law. The child of a woman conceiving after a rape, which was made legitimate. Literally, the child of a struggle. Burrill.

BULLETIN DES LOIS

In France, the official sheet which publishes the laws and decrees; this publication constitutes the promulgation of the law or decree.

BVRGHMAILS

Yearly payments to the crown of Scotland, introduced by Malcolm III., and resembling the English fee-farm rents.

BURYING-GROUND

A place set apart for the interment of the dead; a cemetery. Appeal Tax Court v. Academy, 50 Md. 353.

BUY IN

To purchase, at public sale, property which is one’s own or which one has caused or procured to be sold.

BAIL TO THE SHERIFF, OR BAIL BELOW

In practice. Persons who undertake that a defendant arrested upon mesne process in a civil action shall duly appear to answer the plaintiff; such undertaking being in the fonn of a bond

BACHELOR

The holder of the first or lowest degree conferred by a college or university, e. g., a bachelor of arts, bachelor of law, etc. A kind of inferior knight; an esquire. A

BADGE

A mark or cognizance worn to show the relation of the wearer to any person or thing; the token of anything; a distinctive mark of office or service.

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