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A* customary small toll pald to the lord of a town for set-ting up boards, tables, booths, etc., ln fairs or markets

In French law. A note enumerating the purchases and sales wbicb may have been made by a broker or stock-broker. This name is also given to the state-ment glven to a banker wltlr bills for dls-count or coupons to receive. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 547

A process grant-ed by a Judge ordinary, on either side of the border between England and Scotland, for arresting the person or effects of a per-son living on the opposlte side, until he find security, judicio sisti. Bell

In Saxon law. A breach or vlolatlon of suretyship; pledge-breach, or breach of mutual fidelity

or BORDIMANNI. In old

A cottage

An old Saxon word, signifying a cottage; a house; a table

BOTING, CORN. Certain rent corn, anciently so called. Cowell

A charge on logs for the use of a boom in collecting, storing, or raft-ing them. Lumber Co. v. Thompson, 83 Miss. 499, 35 South. 82a A rlght of entry on riparian lands for the purpose of fastening booms and boom sticks. Farraud v. Clarke. 63 Mlnn. 181, 65 N. W. 361

A company formed for the purpose of improving streams for the floating of logs, hy means of booms and other contrivances, and for the purpose of running, driving, booming, and rafting logs

1. A general designation applied to any literary composition which is print-ed, but appropriately to a printed composi-tlon hound in a volume. Scoville v. Toland, 21 Fed. Cas. 864

A gratuity. A premium paid to a grantor or vendor

A special writ of jail delivery, which formerly Issued of course for each particular prisoner. 4 BL Comm. 270

The remission of a tax, particularly on goods intended for ex-port, being a special advantage extended by government in aid of trade and manufactures. and having the same effect as a bonus or drawback. It is a device resorted to for enabling a commodity affected by taxes to

A writ ad-dressed to the sheriff, when a writ of error has been brought, commanding that the person against whom judgment has been ob-tained be not suffered to remove his goods till the error be tried and determined. Reg. orig. 131

In the clvil law. To make a transfer or surrender of property, as a debtor did to his creditors. Cod. 7, 71

In old European law. Good men; a name given in early European jurisprudence to the tenants of the lord, who judged each other in the lord’s courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 349

L. Fr. In old English law. Good men, (of the jury

A surety; one who has entered Into a bond as surety. The word seems to apply especially to the sureties upon the bonds of officers, trustees, etc., while bail should be reserved for the sureties on recognizances and bail-bonds. Haberstlch V. Elliott, 180 IU. 70, 59 N. E. 557

Slavery; Involuntary per-sonal servitude; captivity. In old English law, vlllenage, villein tenure. 2 Bl. Comm. 92

In the civil law. of good faith; in good faith. This is a more frequent form than bona fide

In or with good faith; honestly, openly, and sincerely; without de-ceit or fraud

Lat adj. Good. Used ln nnmer-ous legal phrases of which the following are the principal

Lat. n. Goods; property; possessions. In the Roman law. this term was used to designate all species of property, real, personal, and mixed, but was more strictly applied to real estate. In modern civil law, it includes both personal property (technically so called) and chattels real, thus corresponding to the French biens. In the common […]

The desertion by oue or more persons from the political party to which he or they belong; the permanent withdrawal before adjournment of a portion of the dele-gates to a political convention. Rap. & L

or BOLDAGIUM. A little house or cottage. Blount

or BOYS. L. Fr. wood; timber; brush

water arising from a salt well belonging to a person who is not the owner of the soil.

An organized and sys-tematic collection of rules of jurisprudence; as, particularly, the body of the civil law, or carpus juris civilis

The

A county at large, as distinguished from any particular place withiu it. A county considered as a territorial whole. State v. Arthur, 39 Iowa, 632; People v. Dunn, 31 App. Div. 139, 52

A corporation

A person. Used of a natural body, or of an artificial one created by law, as a Corporation

Belg. and Germ. Bottomry, (q. v

Pertaining to or concerning the body; of or belonging to the body or the physical constitution; not mental but cor-poreal. Electric R. Co. v. Lauer, 21 Ind. App. 466, 52 N. E. 703

Sax. A scribe, notary, or chancellor among the Saxons

A term applied In some states to minor rivers and streams capable of being navigated in small boats, skiffs, or launches, though not by steam or sailing ves-sels. New England Trout, etc.. Club v. Mnth-er, OS Vt. 338. 35 Atl. 323, 33 L. R. A. 569

A small open vessel, or water-craft, usually moved by oars or rowing. It is commonly distinguished In law from a ship or vessel, by heing of smaller size and with-out a deck. U. S. v. open Boat, 5 Mason, 120, 137, Fed. Cas. No. 15,967

A boarding-house is not ln common parlance, or in legal mean-ing, every private house where one or more boarders are kept occasionally only and upon special considerations. But it is a quasi pub-lie house, where boarders are generally and habitually kept, and which is held out and known as a place of entertainment of that […]

one who, heing the iuhab-itaut of a place, makes a special contract wlth another person for food with or without lodging. Berkshire woollen Co. v. Proctor, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 424

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 by some writers of the existence of the blue laws has no other basis than the adoption, by the first authorities of the […]

In forest law. The having the hands or other parts bloody, whlch, in a person caught trespassing ln the forest against venison, was ohe of the four kinds of circumstantial evidence of his having killed deer, although he was not found in the act of chasing or hunting. Manwood

An amercement for blood-shed. Cowell

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A weregild, or pecuniary mulct paid by a slayer to the rela-tlves of his victim

Kindred; consanguinity; fam-lly relationship; relation by descent from a

ln international law. A marine investment or beleaguering of a town or harbor. A sort of olrcumvallatlon round a place by whlch all foreign connection and correspondence is, as far as human power can effect it, to be cut off. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 151. It is not necessary, however, that the place should be […]

In Pennsylva-nta land law. Any considerable body of contiguous tracts surveyed in the name of the same warrantee, without regard to the manner in which they were originally located; a body of contiguous tracts located by exterior lines, but not separated from each other by interior lines. Morrison v. Seaman, 183 Pa. 74, 38 Atl. […]

A square or portion of a city or town inclosed by streets, whether partially or wholly occupied by buildings or containing only vacant lots, ottawa v. Bar-ney, 10 Kan. 270; Fraser v. ott, 95 Cal. 661, 30 Pac. 793; State v. Deffes, 44 La. Ann. 164, 10 South. 597; Todd v. Railroad Co., 78 111. […]

In old English law. Boughs broken down from trees and thrown ln a way where deer are likely to pass. Jacob