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Bill of conformity. A bill in equity by which an executor or administrator seeks the aid of a court of equity in administering an involved estate.

Bill of costs. costs. A statement of the items of a party's costs in an action. See 22 N. H. 217. Bill of credit. Paper issued by authority of a state, on the faith of the state, designed to circulate as money. See 9 L. Ed. (U. S.) 709. Bill of debt. An old term including promissory notes and bonds for the payment of money.

Bill of discovery. A bill in equity seeking the disclosure of papers or facts within the defendant's possession or knowledge. See 139 Cal. 469, 73 Pac. 145.

Bill of entry. A written description of imported or exported goods filed with the customs officials. Bill of exceptions. A statement of a party's objections to rulings of a trial court. See 8 L. Ed. (U. S.) 92.

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Bill of exchange. A written order by the maker to the payee to pay a sum therein named to a third person. See 35 L. R. A. 647; also 16 Am. St. Rep. 718.

Bill of gross adventure. (French) A written contract of bottomry, respondentia, or other maritime

loan.

Bill of health. A statement of a proper official certifying the healthful condition of a ship, its cargo and crew.

Bill of indemnity. A statute relieving officers from the failure to take their official oaths.

Bill of indictment. A written accusation of crime presented to a grand jury. See Rice (S. C.), 1, 33 Am. Dec. 90.

Bill of information. An information.

Bill of interpleader. A bill in equity by which the plaintiff, hav、 ing no claim against the defendants, seeks to compel them to litigate their claims in respect to property in his hands and thus to relieve himself of responsibility. 1 Cow. (N. Y.) 691.

Bill of lading. A receipt issued by a carrier to the shipper reciting the contract of carriage. See 44 L. Ed. (U. S.) 929; also 37 Am. St. Rep. 572.

Bill of Middlesex. A kind of capias

directing the sheriff to have the defendant in court on a certain day to answer an action of trespass. See 8 Leigh (Va.), 479. Bill of mortality. A copy of a public record of deaths in a given community.

Bill of pains and penalties. A statute sentencing one to punishment for some high crime. See 71 U. S. 277, 18 L. Ed. 356.

Bill of parcels. An invoice.
Bill of particulars. An itemized

statement of accounts or matters set forth generally in a pleading. See 12 Misc. Rep. 457, 34 N. Y. Supp. 255.

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Bill of peace. A bill in equity to enjoin a multiplicity of suits. 10 Ga. 395. Bill of privilege. A special form of action against attorneys and other court officers exempt from arrest. Bill of proof. A third party claim to the subject matter of a suit. Bill of review. A bill in equity to have an equity suit reviewed. See 85 Mich. 243, 48 N. W. 505. Bill of revivor. A bill in equity to continue a suit which has been abated. See 37 U. S. 164, 9 L. Ed. 1041.

Bill of revivor and supplement. A bill in equity to revive an abated suit and to introduce and plead new matters which could not be supplied by amendment. See 5

Johns. Ch. 334, 9 Am. Dec. 306. Bill of rights. A statute declaring rights and liberties reserved to the people. See 11 Ark. 481.

Bill of sale. A writing evidencing transfer of title to chattels. See 14 Am. St. Rep. 266.

Bill of sight. A lawful customhouse entry of goods which withholds full information from the importer.

Bill of store. A custom-house license exempting a ship's stores and supplies from duty.

Bill of sufferance. A license exempting from duty a merchant trading between English ports.

Bill payable. Commercial

paper

which one is bound to pay. Bill penal. A written promise to pay more than one's debt. Bill quia timet. A bill in equity filed by the owner of a future estate to prevent injury thereto. See 6 Lans. (N. Y.) 356.

Bill receivable. Commercial paper which one holds.

Bill, single. A written promise to pay a certain sum at a certain time.

Bill to carry a decree into execution. A bill in equity in aid of the execution of a decree.

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Bill to marshal assets. A bill in equity to compel creditors to exhaust the property on which they have claims before resorting to other assets.

Bill to marshal securities. A bill in equity to compel creditors secured by two funds to exhaust one of them before resorting to the other.

Bill to perpetuate testimony. A bill in equity to secure and preserve testimony for use in an action not yet pending. See 1 Del. Ch. 133. Bill to remove cloud upon title. A bill in equity to confirm a valid title by one in possession against possible claimants.

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permittitur amplius fieri quam semel factum est. Good faith does not suffer the same thing to be exacted twice, and in giving satisfaction it is not permitted that more should be done than to do so once. Bi-scot.

A fine for failure to repair banks, ditches and causeways.— Blount.

Bishop. An officer in charge of a

diocese of the Church of England. Bishopric. The jurisdiction of a bishop. Bishop's

court. An ecclesiastical

court held in each diocese of the English church.

Bissextile. The day added to February in leap years.

Black acre and white acre. Fictitious names of parcels of land used in the discussions of lawwriters.

Black Act. An English statute passed in 1722 to suppress bands known as "the blacks."

Black acts. Scotch statutes enacted in the sixteenth century and written in black letter.

Black book of the admiralty.

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Blank. A space in a document intended to be filled to complete the meaning.

Blank acceptance. Mere signing his name across the face of a bill of exchange by the drawee.

Blank bar. Common bar, which see. Blank bonds. (Scotch) Securities payable to bearer, abolished by statute.

Blank indorsement. One which does not name an indorsee. Blanket-ballot. A ballot on which all the names of candidates to be voted for at the election appear. Blanket-patent. Letters patent including several devices each of which would be patentable. Blanket-policy. An insurance policy covering generally the interest of the insured without describing particular property. See 23 L. Ed. (U. S.) 869.

Blasarius. An incendiary.

Blasphemy. Contumelious reproaches See 22 L. R. A. 353. Grain which has been

of God. Blees scies. cut.

Blench-holding. Same as Blanchholding.

Blended fund. The proceeds of an executor's sale of all his testator's realty and personalty under the will.

Blinks. Broken boughs thrown where deer are likely to pass.Jacob.

Blockade. The closing of a port or coast by an enemy so as to prevent egress or ingress. See 2 Am. Dec. 209.

Blood. Relationship; kindred. See 5 Ann. Cas. 511; also 29 L. R. A. 544. Blood-brother. A brother by birth. Blood-frenzy. An irresistible impulse for bloodshed.

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Board measure.

The number of feet

of board produced by a log when sawed. See 40 Am. St. Rep. 265. Board of health. A public body in charge of the sanitary and hygienic affairs of a community. Board of supervisors. The governing body of a county, in many states.

Board of trade. An association of

tradesmen founded to benefit commercial interests of a community. Board of works. A public body having charge of public works. Boarder. One who contracts for meals at an agreed price. Boc. A book; a written instrument. Boc horde. A place where books or written instruments were kept. Bcc land. Land held by deed. Bodily heirs. Heirs of the body. See Ann. Cas. 1912A, 540. Bodmerie, bodemerie, or boddemerey. Bottomry.

Body. Person; a corporation; an unincorporated association;

board; a code of laws.

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Bona. Goods; chattels; property. Bona confiscata. Property forfeited to the crown. See 1 Bl. Comm. 299.

Bona et catalla. Goods and chattels.

Bona felonum. Goods of felons. Bona fide. In good faith. Bona fide holder. One receiving the instrument in the ordinary course of business, in good faith, and for a valuable consideration. See 26 L. R. A. (N. S.) 849.

Bona fide possessor facit fructus consumptos suos. A possessor by good faith makes fruits consumed his own. See 5 L. Ed. (U. S.) 547. Bona fide purchaser. A buyer at a fair price and without notice of any outstanding claim of title or interest. See 82 Am. St. Rep. 211; also 31 L. R. A. 612. Bona fides. Good faith. Bona fides exigit ut quod convenit fiat. Good faith requires that what has been agreed upon shall be done.

Bona fides non patitur, ut bis idem exigatur. Good faith does not suffer one to exact his price twice for the same thing. See 4 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 143.

Bona forisfacta. Goods forfeited. Bona fugitivorum. Goods of fugitives.

Bona gestura. Good behavior. Bona gratia. With good grace; freely.

Bona immobila. Immovable prop

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Bonae fidei emptor. A purchaser in good faith.

Bonae fidei possessor in id tantum quod ad se pervenerit tenetur. A possessor in good faith is bound for only so much as has come to him. Bond.

An instrument under seal whereby one binds himself to do or not to do a certain act; bail; a surety. See 26 L. Ed. (U. S.) 886.

Bond and disposition in security. (Scotch) A mortgage of realty. Bond tenants. Copyholders or customary tenants.

Bonda. A boundary.

Bondage. Involuntary personal servitude.

Bonded debt. Debt secured by bond issues.

Bonded warehouse. One in which goods subject to duty or internal revenue are stored until withdrawn for export or upon payment of the duty or revenue. See 20 L. Ed. (U. S.) 726. Bondsman. A surety. Bones gents. Good men.

Boni et legales homines.

lawful men.

Boni homines Good men.

Good and

Boni judicis est ampliare jurisditi

onem. A good judge should dignify his jurisdiction. See 68 L. R. A. 956.

Boni judicis est causas litium dirimere. A good judge should dissipate the causes of litigation. Boni judicis est judicium sine dilatione mandare executioni. A good judge should order the execution of a judgment without delay. Boni judicis est lites dirimere, ne lis ex lite oritur, et interest reipublicae ut sint fines litium. A good judge should end litigation lest

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suit grow out of suit, and it is of interest to the state that litigation should end.

Bonis non amovendis. A writ restraining a judgment debtor from removing his goods pending a writ of error. Bonitarian. (Roman Law) A land title which was not wholly valid. Bonne. Good.

Bono et malo. For good or evil. Bonus. Not a gift or a gratuity, but a sum paid for services or upon a consideration, in addition to that which would ordinarily be given. See 21 L. Ed. (U. S.) 319.

Bonum defendentis ex integra causa; malum ex quolibet defectu. A defendant's good comes out of a good cause, his disaster from some defect.

Bonum necessarium extra terminos necessitatis non est bonum. That which is good of necessity is not good beyond the limits of necessity.

Bonus judex secundum aequum et bonum judicat, et aequitatem stricto juri praefert. A good judge decides according to that which is just and good, and prefers equity to strict law. Boodle. Money fraudulently obtained in public service. See 34 Am. St. Rep. 318.

Book debt. A statutory action based upon book accounts.

Book land. Land held by deed. Book of acts. Surrogate court records.

Book of adjournal. (Scotch) Records of the court of justiciary. Book of rates. A list of statutory duties and tariffs.

Book of responses. (Scotch) An account kept by the director of the exchequer.

Boon days. Days appointed for base services of copy hold tenants. Boot. Same as Bote.

Boothage. Duty paid on a market booth.

Booting-corn. Rent paid in corn.
Booty. Goods captured in war.

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