Category: B

In old English law. Boughs broken down from trees and thrown in a way where deer are likely to pass. Jacob.

A boarding-house is not in common parlance, or in legal meaning, every private house where one or more boarders are kept occasionally only and upon special considerations. But it is a quasi

Water arising from a salt well belonging to a person who is not the owner of the soil.

A purchaser for a valuable consideration paid or parted with in the belief that the vendor had a right to sell, and without any suspicious circumstances to put him on inquiry. Merritt

It is the duty of a good judge to cause judgment to be executed without delay. Co. Litt 289.

A book in which a merchant keeps his accounts generally and enters therein from day to day a record of his transactions. McKnight v. Newell, 207 Pa. 662, 57 Atl. 39. A

A process granted by a judge ordinary, on either side of the border between England and Scotland, for arresting the person or effects of a person living on the opposite side, until

Courts of limited criminal jurisdiction, established in English boroughs under the municipal corporations act.

In English law. Sheriffs’ officers are so called, from their being usually bound to the sheriff in an obligation with sureties, for the due execution of their office. 1 Bl. Comm. 345,

An arm of the sea.

Forcibly separating, parting, disintegrating, or piercing any solid substance. In the law as to housebreaking and burglary, it means the tearing away or removal of any part of a house or of

A named writ. A writ stating the circumstances or details of the cause of action, with the time, place, and demand, very particularly.

Choice or selected writs or processes. Often abbreviated to Brev. Sel.

In ecclesiastical law. The pope’s letter upon matters of discipline.

A bawdy-house; a house of ill fame; a common habitation of prostitutes.

The statutory lien of a material-man or contractor for the erection of a building. Lumber Co. v. Holt, GO Neb. SO, 82 N. W. 112, S3 Am. St. Rep. 512; June v.

In old English law. A term applied to a contribution towards the repair of castles or walls of defense, or of a borough.

To consume with fire. The verb “to burn,” in an indictment for arson, is to be taken in its common meaning of “to consume with fire.” Hester v. State, 17 Ga. 130.

The bounding lines of land at the end; abuttals, which see.

Charity, as used in the Massachusetts Sunday law, includes whatever proceeds from a sense of moral duty or a feeling of kindness and humanity, and is intended wholly for the purpose of