Category: B

In old English law. A bill or petition exhibited in parliament. Cowell.

The day which is added every fourth year to the mouth of February, In order to make the year agree with the course of the sun. Leap year, consisting of 300 days,

In old English law. Growing crops of grain of any kind. Spelman. All manner of annual grain. Cowell. Harvested grain. Bract. 2176; Reg. Orig. 946, 95.

An amercement for bloodshed. Cowell. The privilege of taking such amercements. Skene. A privilege or exemption from paying a fine or amercement assessed for bloodshed. Cowell.

Pertaining to or concerning the body; of or belonging to the body or the physical constitution; not mental but corporeal. Electric It. Co. v. Lauer, 21 Ind. App. 40(3, 52 N. E.

In old French law. A royal order or check on the treasury, invented by Francis I. Bon pour mille livrcs, good for a thousand livres. Step. Lect. 387. In modern law. The

A possessor in good faith Is only liable for that which he himself has obtained. 2 Inst 285.

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

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

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

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

An exchange; a stock- exchange.

A maltster, a brewer.

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

Jenk. Cent. 43. A judicial writ fails not through defect of form.

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

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

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

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

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