BASTARD EIGNE', Eng. law. Elder bastard. By the old English law, when, a man had a bastard son, and he afterwards married the mother, and by her h...
BARTON, old English law. The demesne land of a manor; a farm distinct from the mansion.BASE. Something low; inferior. This word is frequently used in ...
BARRATRY, maritime law, crimes. A fraudulent act of the master or mariners, committed contrary to their duty as such, to the prejudice of the owners o...
BARGEMEN. Persons who own and keep a barge for the purpose of carrying the goods of all. such other persons who may desire to employ them. They are li...
BAR, practice. A place in a court where the counsellors and advocates stand to make their addresses to the court and jury; it is so called because for...
BANKRUPTCY. The state or condition of a bankrupt.2. Bankrupt laws are an encroacbment upon the common law. The first in England was the stat. 34 and 3...
BANK, com. law. 1. A place for the deposit of money. 2. An institution, generally incorporated, authorized to receive deposits of money, to lend money...
BAILOR, contracts. He who bails a thing to another.2. The bailor must act with good faith towards the bailee; Story's Bailm. §74, 76, 77; per...
BAILIFF, account render. A bailiff is a person who has, by delivery, the custody and administration of lands or goods for the benefit of the owner or ...
BAIL BOND, practice, contracts. A specialty by which the defendant and other persons, usually not less than two, though the sheriff may take only one,...