Category: B

See BANC. A seat or bench of justice; also, in commerce, a word of Italian origin signifying a bank.

An old law term, signifying a space or tract of country around a city, town, or monastery, distinguished and protected by peculiar privileges. Spelman.

He is guilty of barratry who for money sells justice. Bell.

An English name or title of dignity, (but not a title of nobility,) established A. D. 1611 by James I. It is created by letters patent, and descends to the male heir.

In French law. The suburbs of a town.

Land that is in controversy, or about the possession of which there is a dispute, as the lands which were situated between England and Scotland before the Union. Skene.

Instruments for weighing goods and merchandise.

The jurisdiction of a bedel, as a bailiwick is the jurisdiction of a bailiff. Co. Litt. 2346; Cowell.

In practice. Inferior; of inferior jurisdiction, or jurisdiction in the first instance. The court from which a cause is removed for review is called the “court below.” Preliminary; auxiliary or instrumental. Bail

In Roman law. The privilege by which a surety could, before paying the creditor, compel him to make over to him the actions which belonged to the stipulator, so as to avail

In English law. Societies established and registered under the friendly societies act, 1875, for any charitable or benevolent purposes.

A large farm; the barn-yard of a large farm.

In the law relating to sales by auction, this term is equivalent to “puffing.” The practice consists in making fictitious bids for the property, under a secret arrangement with the owner or

A word used by Britton in the sense of “collateral.” En line bilinc, in the collateral line. Britt. c. 119.

In a merchant’s accounts, all notes, drafts, checks, etc., payable to him, or of which he is to receive the proceeds at a future date, are called “bills receivable,” and are entered

Pertaining to, or consisting of, two metals used as money at a fixed relative value.

Fictitious names applied to pieces of land, and used as examples in the old books.

In old English law. A corn-monger; meal-man or corn-chandler; a bladier, or engrosser of corn or grain. Blount.

A supposititious code of severe laws for the regulation of religious and personal conduct in the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven; hence any rigid Sunday laws or religious regulations. The assertion

Any touching of the person of another against his will with physical force, in an intentional, hostile, and aggressive manner, or a projecting of such force against his person. People v. Moore,