Category: 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.

To the rear; backward; in a reverse direction. Also, in arrear.

A term used relatively to the law of fraudulent conveyances made to hinder and defraud creditors. It is defined as a fact tending to throw suspicion upon a transaction, and calling for

In old law. A bailiff’s jurisdiction, a bailiwick; the same as Vailium. Spelman. See” BAII.I WICK. In old English law. A liberty, or exclusive jurisdiction, which was exempted from the sheriff of

In French marine law. A buoy.

Lat In old English law and practice. A bench or seat in the king’s hall or palace. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 16,

A French and Canadian law term, having the same meaning as banleuea, (q. v.)

In old Lombardlc law. An uncle, (patruus.)

In England, a quantity of land amounting to 15 acres. In Ireland, a subdivision of a county.

See ANIMAL.

In old English law. Battel; the trial by combat or duellum.