Category: B

One which is filed by a mortgagee against the mortgagor, for the purpose of having the estate sold, thereby to obtain the sum mortgaged on the premises, with interest and costs. 1

In English law. A kind of license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for their voyage, custom free. Jacob.

A cap or coif used formerly in England by judges and serjeants at law. Spelman.

A name given collectively to the body of laws, statutes, and rules in force in various southern states prior to 1805, which regulated the institution of slavery, and particularly those forbidding their

In English law. Blasphemy is the offense of speaking matter relating to God, Jesus Christ, the Bible, or the Book of Common Prayer, intended to wound the feelings of mankind or to

Under the system obtaining in some of the northern states, this name is given to an organized committee, or body of officials, composed of delegates from the several townships in a county,

The main and operative part; the substantive provisions, as distinguished from the recitals, title, jurat, etc.

In the Roman law. By mutual consent; voluntarily. A term applied to a species of divorce where the parties separated by mutual consent; or where the parties renounced their marital engagements without

In old European law. Good men; a name given in early European Jurisprudence to the tenants of the lord, who judged each other in the lord’s courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 349.

In Pennsylvania practice. The act of 2Sth March. 1895.

A cottage.

In English law. The revenues of a municipal borough derived from the rents and produce of the land, houses, and stocks belonging to the borough in its corporate capacity, and supplemented where

When a broker is employed to buy and sell goods, he is accustomed to give to the buyer a note of the sale, commonly called a “sold note,” and to the seller

Manufacturers of tiows and shafts. An ancient company of the city of London.

The offense of actually and forcibly breaking a prison or gaol, with intent to escape. 4 Chit. Bl. 130, notes; 4 Steph. Comm. 255. The escape from custody of a person lawfully

A writ. An original writ. A writ or precept of the king issuing out of his courts. A writ by which a person is summoned or attached to answer an action, complaint,

Certain writs of approved and established form which were granted of course in actions to which they were applicable, and which could not be changed but by consent of the great council

In the location of a private way laid out by the selectmen, and accepted by the town, a description of it as a “bridle road” does not confine the right of way

In maritime law. That space in a ship which is not filled by her cargo.

See LINE.