Category: B

Adversary writs; writs brought by an adversary to recover land. 6 Coke, 67.

An engine by which walls were beaten down. Blount.

The wages, commission, or pay of a broker, (also called “brokerage.”) Also the avocation or business of a broker.

A toil, net, or snare, to take deer. 4 Inst. 306.

(Lat. onus probandi.) In the law of evidence. The necessity or duty of affirmatively proving a fact or facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause. Willett

In criminal law. The breaking and entering the house of another in the night-time, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felony be actually committed or not. Anderson v. State,

This word embraces everything about which a person can be employed. People v. Com’rs of Taxes, 23 N. Y. 242, 244. That which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for

In practice. Terms anciently used to designate actions commenced by original hill, as distinguished from those commenced by original writ, and applied in modern practice to suits commenced by capias ad respondendum.

A term of no very definite import, but generally signifying lands lying back from (not contiguous to) a highway or a watercourse. See Ryerss v. Wheeler, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 150.

In old English law. One who made a practice of buying corn or victuals in one place, and carrying them to another to sell and make profit by them.

The territorial jurisdiction of a sheriff or bailiff. 1 Bl. Comm. 344. Greenup v. Bacon. 1 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 108.

In the civil law. A teacher; one who has the care of youth; a tutor; a guardian. Du Cange; Spelman.

The king’s bench; the supreme tribunal of the king after parliament. 3 BL. Comm. 41.

In old law, one under a ban, (q. v.;) an outlaw or banished man. Britt cc. 12, 13; Calvin.

(Modern Fr. hrcbis.) Sheep. See Millen v. Fawen, Bendloe, 171, “home ove petit chien chase barbitts.”

In maritime law. An act committed by the master or mariners of a vessel, for some unlawful or fraudulent purpose, contrary to their duty to the owners, whereby the latter sustain injury.

In English law. An estate or fee which has a qualification subjoined thereto, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at an, end. 2 Bl. Comm. 109.

In French marine law. A vessel or ship.

To generate interest, so that the instrument or loan spoken of shall produce or yield interest at the rate specified by the parties or granted by law. Slaughter v. Slaughter, 21 Ind.

In English law. A place where beer is sold to be consumed on the premises; as distinguished from a “beer-shop,” which is a place where beer is sold to be consumed off