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A term anciently applied to a castle or fortified place; a borough, (q. v.) Spelman.

A burgess, (q. v.)

A term used in the old English law, to designate a large and clumsily constructed ship.

Regulations, ordinances, or rules euacted by a private corporation for its own government A by-law is a rule or law of a corporation, for its government, and is a legislative act, and

Equity assists ignorance, but not carelessness.

Sax. Bearing upon the back or about the person. Applied to a thief taken with the stolen property in his immediate possession. Bract 1, 3, tr. 2, c. 32. Used with handlmbend,

To procure the release of a person from legal custody, by undertaking that he shall appear at the time and place designated and submit himself to the jurisdiction and judgment of the

contract in which the bailor agrees to pay an adequate recompense for the safe-keeping of the thing intrusted to the custody of the bailee, and the bailee agrees to keep it and

An ancient writ to remove a bailiff from his office for want of sufficient land in the bailiwick. Reg. Orig. 78.

In English law. A knight made in the field, by the ceremony of cutting off the point of his standard, and making it, as it were, a banner. Knights so made are

To summon tenants to serve at the lord’s courts, to bring corn to be ground at his mill.

A mutual undertaking, contract, or agreement. A contract or agreement between two parties, the one to sell goods or lands, and the other to buy them. Hunt v. Adams, 5 Mass. 300,

In the civil law. A debt which bears no interest.

A tenure by villenage, or other customary service, as distinguished from tenure by military service; or from tenure by free service. Cowell.

Any unlawful beating, or other wrongful physical violence or constraint, inflicted on a human being without his consent. 2 Bish. Crim. Law,

In English law. The buck, doe, fox, martin, and roe. Co. Litt. 233a.

A land measure used in the East Indies. In Bengal it is equal to about a third part of an acre.

A term which corresponds to the bene/icium in- ventarii of Roman law, and substantially to the English law doctrine that the executor properly accounting is only liable to the extent of the

In the civil law. The release of a debtor from future imprisonment for his debts, which the law operates in his favor upon the surrender of his property for the benefit of

A gift by will of personal property; a legacy. A specific bequest is one whereby the testator gives to the legatee all his property of a certain class or kind; as all