BOND TENANT, Eng. law. Copyholders and customary tenants are sometimes so called. Calth. on Copyh. 51, 54.BONDAGE. Slavery.BONIS NON AMOVENDIS. The na...
BONA VACANTIA. Goods to which no one claims a property, as, shipwrecks, treasure trove, &c.; vacant goods.BONA WAVIATA. Goods waived or thrown awa...
BONA FIDE. In or with good faith.2. The law requires all persons in their transactions to act with good faith and a contract where the parties have no...
BLOTTER, mer. law. A book among merchants, in which entries of sales, &c.;are first made.2. This book, containing the original entries, is receive...
BLIND. One who is deprived of the faculty of seeing.2. Persons who are blind may enter into contracts and make wills like others. Carth. 53; Barn. 19,...
BLANCH FIRMES. The same as white rent. (q. v.)BLANK. A space left in writing to be filled, up with one or more words, in order to make sense. 1. In wh...
BIPARTITE. Of two parts. This term is used in conveyancing as, this indenture bipartite, between A, of the one part, and B, of the other part. But whe...
BILL OF SIGHT, English commercial law. When a merchant i's ignorant of the real quantities or qualities of any goods consigned to him, so that he ...
BILL OBLIGATORY. An instrument in common use and too well known to be misunderstood. It is a bond without condition, sometimes called a single bill, a...
BILL OF GROSS ADVENTURE. A phrase used in French maritime law; it comprehends every instrument of writing which contains a contract of bottomry, respo...