Category: B

Any physical or corporeal injury; not necessarily restricted to injury to the trunk or main part of the body as distinguished from the head or limbs. Quirk v. Siegel-Cooper Co., 43 App.

Goods forfeited.

A creditor whose debt is secured by a bond.

A good thing required by necessity is not good beyond the limits of such necessity. Hob. 144.

An old Saxon word, equivalent to “estovers.”

A breach or violation of suretyship, or of mutual fidelity. Jacob.

Customary dues paid to the lord of a manor or soil, for the pitching or standing of booths in fairs or markets.

In French marine law. A compass; the mariner’s compass.

A clamorous or tumultuous quarrel in a public place, to the disturbance of the public peace. In English law, specifically, a noisy quarrel or other uproarious conduct creating a disturbance in a

A payment in bran, which tenants anciently made to feed their lords’ hounds.

Writs. The plural of breve, which see.

One that pilfers other men’s goods; a thief.

In English law. A contract by which A. lends B.

An office or place (other than a regularly incorporated or licensed exchange) where information is posted as to the fluctuating prices of stocks, grain, cotton, or other commodities, and where persons lay

A person employed to dun one for a debt; a bailiff employed to arrest a debtor. Probably a vulgar corruption of “bound-bailiff,” (q. v.)

One who commits burglary. One who breaks into a dwelling-house in the night-time with intent to commit a felony. Wilson v. State, 34 Ohio St. 200; O’Connor v. Press Pub. Co., 34

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts. But the dimensions of a bushel, and the weight of a bushel of grain, etc., vary in the different states in

This word, when descriptively used in a grant, does not mean “in immediate contact with,” but “near” to, the object to which it relates; and “near” is a relative term, meaning, when

Special bail, (g. v.)

In French and Canadian law. A lease of lands.