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BIGOT

An obstinate person, or one that is wedded to an opinion, in matters of religion, etc.

BILL TO PERPETUATE TESTIMONY

A bill in equity tiled in order to procure the testimony of witnesses to be taken as to some matter not at the time before the courts, but which is likely at

BISAILE

The father of one’s grandfather or grandmother.

BLACK MARIA

A closed wagon or van in which prisoners are carried to and from the jail, or between the court and the jail.

BLOCK

A square or portion of a city or town inclosed by streets, whether partially or wholly occupied by buildings or containing only vacant lots. Ottawa v. Barney, 10 Kan. 270; Fraser v.

BOAT

A small open vessel, or water- craft, usually moved by oars or rowing. It is commonly distinguished in law from a ship or vessel, by being of smaller size and without a

BOOK OF RATES

An account or enumeration of the duties or tariffs authorized by parliament. 1 Bl. Comm. 310.

BORDEREAU

In French law. A note enumerating the purchases and sales which may have been made by a broker or stockbroker. This name is also given to the statement given to a banker

BORSHOLDER

In Saxon law. The borough’s ealder, or headborough, supposed to be in the discreetest man in the borough, town, or tithing.

BOUNDARY

By boundary is understood, in general, every separation, natural or artificial, which marks the confines or line of division of two contiguous estates. Trees or hedges may be planted, ditches may be

BRACINUM

A brewing; the whole quantity of ale brewed at one time, for which tolscstor was paid in some manors. Brccina, a brew-house.

BREAKING A CASE

The expression by the judges of a court, to one another, of their views of a case, in order to ascertain how far they are agreed, and as preliminary to the formal

BREVE ORIGINALE

An original writ; a writ which gave origin and commencement to a suit.

BREVIA TESTATA

The name of the short memoranda early used to show grants of lands out of which the deeds now in use have grown. Jacob. Brevia, tam originalia qnam jndicialia, patinntnr Anglica nomina.

BRIEVE

In Scotch law. A writ. 1 Kames, Eq. 146.

BROTHER

One person is a brother “of the whole blood” to another, the former being a male, when both are born from the same father and mother. He is a brother “of the

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