BOUND BAILIFFS
In English law. Sheriffs’ officers are so called, from their being usually bound to the sheriff in an obligation with sureties, for the due execution of their office. 1 Bl. Comm. 345,
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In English law. Sheriffs’ officers are so called, from their being usually bound to the sheriff in an obligation with sureties, for the due execution of their office. 1 Bl. Comm. 345,
An arm of the sea.
Forcibly separating, parting, disintegrating, or piercing any solid substance. In the law as to housebreaking and burglary, it means the tearing away or removal of any part of a house or of
A named writ. A writ stating the circumstances or details of the cause of action, with the time, place, and demand, very particularly.
Choice or selected writs or processes. Often abbreviated to Brev. Sel.
In ecclesiastical law. The pope’s letter upon matters of discipline.
A bawdy-house; a house of ill fame; a common habitation of prostitutes.
The statutory lien of a material-man or contractor for the erection of a building. Lumber Co. v. Holt, GO Neb. SO, 82 N. W. 112, S3 Am. St. Rep. 512; June v.
In old English law. A term applied to a contribution towards the repair of castles or walls of defense, or of a borough.
To consume with fire. The verb “to burn,” in an indictment for arson, is to be taken in its common meaning of “to consume with fire.” Hester v. State, 17 Ga. 130.
The bounding lines of land at the end; abuttals, which see.
Charity, as used in the Massachusetts Sunday law, includes whatever proceeds from a sense of moral duty or a feeling of kindness and humanity, and is intended wholly for the purpose of
A contract of letting lands.
An abbreviation for “Baron of the Court of Exchequer.”
In English law. A term formerly used in conveyances and also In pleading; it imports a yard at the back part of or behind a house, and belonging thereto.
A contract by which one of the parties gives to the other cattle to keep, feed, and care for, the borrower receiving half the profit of increase, and bearing half the loss.
In Scotch law. Children’s part; a third part of the defunct’s free movables, debts deducted, If the wife survive, and a half if there be no relict.
In the Roman law. Those who stole the clothes of bathers in the public baths. 4 Bl. Comm. 230.
A sum of money placed with a bank or banker, on deposit, by a customer, and subject to be drawn out on the lat- ter’s check. The statement or computation of the
A bench; the table or counter of a trader, merchant, or banker. Banque route; a broken bench or counter; bankrupt