Category: B

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.

A place set apart for the interment of the dead; a cemetery. Appeal Tax Court v. Academy, 50 Md. 353.

To purchase, at public sale, property which is one’s own or which one has caused or procured to be sold.

A formal entry or memorandum of the recognizance or undertaking of special bail in civil actions, which, after being signed and acknowledged by the bail before the proper officer, is filed in

In old records. Commonalty or yeomanry, in contradistinction to baronage.

The opposite of “good faith,” generally implying or involving actual or constructive fraud, or a design to mislead or deceive another, or a neglect or refusal to fuliill some duty or some

In English law. Officers who perform the duties of sheriffs within liberties or privileged jurisdictions, in which formerly the king’s writ could not be executed by the sheriff. Spelman.

In Spanish law. Waste land; land that is neither arable nor pasture. White New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6,

In old English law. Advocates; countors; serjeants. Applied to advocates in the common pleas courts. 1 Bl. Comm. 24; Cowell.

Courts for the administration of the bankrupt laws. The present English bankruptcy courts are the London bankruptcy court, the court of appeal, and the local bankruptcy courts created by the bankruptcy act,