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O. Eng. Expended. Be-fore the Britons and Saxons had introduced the general use of money, they traded chiefly by exchange of wares, wharton

As a measure or indication of distance, this word has the efTect of excluding the two termini. Revere ?. Leonard, 1 Mass. 93; State v. Godfrey, 12 Me. 366. See Morris & E. R. Co. v. Central R. Co., 31 N. J. Law, 212

An improvement put upon an estate whlch enhances its value more than mere repairs. The term is also applied to denote the additional value which an estate acquires in consequence of some public improvement, ns laying out or widening a street, etc. French v. New York, 16

See Equity

Bestiality is the carnal knowledge and connection against the order of nature by man or woman ln any manner with a beast. Code Ga. 1882, { 4354

Primary evidence, as distinguished from secondary; original, as distinguished from substitutionary; the best and highest evidence of which the na-ture of the case is susceptible. A written in-struroent is Itself always regarded as the primary or best possible evidence of its ex

The great-grand-father, proavus. 1 Bl. Comm. 186

A method of anthropometry, used chiefly for the identifi-cation of criminals and other persons, con-sisting of the taking and recording of a sys-tem of numerous, minute, and uniform measurements of various parts of the human body, absolutely and in relation to each oth-er, the facial, cranial, and other angles, aud of any eccentricities or abnormalities […]

Y, or BURY. A villa or seat of habitation of a nobleman; a dwelling or mansion house; a sanctuary

In old law. A plain; open heath. Cowell

orBERGHMOTE. The

An officer having charge of a mine. A bailiff or chief officer among the Derbyshire miners, who, in addi-tion to his other duties, executes the ofiice of corouer among them. Blount; Cowell

A, or BEREWIOA. In old

S, or BERCATOR. A shep

ln old English law, a sheepfold; also a place where the bark of trees was laid to tan

A gift by will of persoual

l’hilauthropic; humane; having a desire or purpose to do good to men; intended for tlie conferring of benefits, rather than for gain or profit

The doing a kind or helpful action towards another, under no obligation except an ethical one

A feudal service rendered by the tenant to hls lord with plow and cart. Cowell

Advantage; profit; priv-ilege, Fitch v. Bates, 11 Barb. (N. Y.) 473; Synod of Dakota v. State, 2 S. D. 366, 50 N. W. 632, 14 L. R. A. 418; winthrop Co. v. Clinton, 196 Pa. 472, 46 Atl. 435, 79 Am. St Rep. 729

In early fendal law

Fr. In French law. A benefit or advantage, and particularly a privilege given by the law rather than by the agreement of the parties

In ecclesiastical law. In its technical sense, this term includes ec-clesiastical preferments to which rank or public office is attached, otherwise describ-ed as ecclesiastical dignities or offices, such as bishoprics, deaneries, and the like; but in popular acceptation, it is almost invari-ably appropriated to rectories, vicarages, perpetual curacies, district churches, and endowed chapelries. 3 Steph. […]

Lat. well; ln proper form; le-gally; sufficiently

Lat. In public law. war. Ah armed contest between nations; the state of those who forcibly contend with each other. Jus belli, the law of war

In Spanish law. Lands sit-unted in places where the inhabitants had the right to select their own lords

In India. A lady, princess, woman of high rank

A land measure used in the Blast Indies. In Beugal it is equal to about a third part of an acre

A liquor compounded of malt and hops

A service which certain tenants were anciently bound to perform, as to reap thelr landlord’s corn at harvest Said by whishaw to be still ln existence in some parts of England. Blount; Cowell; Whishaw

The jurisdiction of a bedel, as a bailiwick is the jurisdiction of a bailiff. Co. Litt. 234b; Cowell

In English law. A crier or messenger of court, who summons men to appear and answer therein. Cowell

An animal; a domestic animal; a quadruped, such as may be used for food or in labor or for sport

To support, sustain, or carry; to give rise to, or to produce, something else as an Incident or auxiliary

Instruments for weighing goods and merchandise

In English ecclesiastical law. An inferior parish officer, who is chosen b.v the vestry, and whose business is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings, to execute Its orders, to attend upon inquests, and to assist the constables, wharton

Money paid for the main-tenance of a beacon or signal-light

A light-house, or sea-mark, formerly used to alarm the country, in case of the approach of an enemy, but now used for tlie guidance of ships at sea, by night, as well as hy day

This term, ln its ordinary sig-nification, when applied to a place on tlde

A species of creek or stream common in Louisiana and Texas. An out-let from a swamp, pond, or lagoon, to a river, or the sen. See Surgett v. Lnpice, 8 IIow. 48, 70, 12 I* Ed. 982.

In old Engllsh law. Bailiff. This term is used in the laws of the colony of New Plymouth, Mass., A. D. 1670, 1671. Bur-rlll

A house of prostitu-tion; a brothel. A house or dwelling maln-tatned for the convenience and resort of per-sons desiring unlawful sexual connection. Davis v. State, 2 Tex. App. 427; State v. Port-er, 88 Ark. 638; People v. Buchanan, 1 Idaho, 689

Any unlawful beating, or other wrongful physical violence or con-stralnt, inflicted on a human being without his consent 2 Bish. Crim. Law, $ 71; Good-rum v. State, 60 Ga. 511; Razor v. Kinsey, 55 IU. App. 614; Lamb v. State, 67 Md. 524, 10 Atl. 200, 298; Hunt v. People, 53 111. App. 112; Perkins […]

Trial by combat; wager of battel

The chief of the French bar in its various centres, who presides in the councll of discipline. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 546

In French marine law. A vessel or ship

In English Iaw. A military order of knighthood, instituted by Richard II. The order was new-Iy regulated hy notifications ln the London Gazette of 25th May, 1847, and 16th August, 1850. wharton

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

The method provided by statute of proceeding against the putative father to secure a proper malnte-nance for the bastard

The offense of begetting a bastard child. The condition of a bastard. Dinkey v. Com., 17 Pa. 129, 55 Am. Dec. 542