Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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BOAD.

BOGUE

BOAD. A way or passage; a line of travel or communication extending from one town or place to another. "Road" and "way" are not synonymous terms. "Road" is used to designate the land over which a way, public or private, is established. 8 Nev. 861. Roads are of two kinds,— public and pri vate. Public roads are those which are made use of as highways, which are generally fur nished and kept up by the owners of the es tates adjacent to them. Private roads are those which are only open for the benefit of certain individuals, to go from and to their homes, for the service of their lamls, and for the use of some estates exclusively. Civil Code La art. 704. In maritime law. An open passage of the sea that receives its denomination com monly from some part adjacent, which, though it lie out at sea, yet, in lespect of the situation of the land adjacent, and the depth and wideness of the place, is a safe place for the common riding or anchoring of ships; as Dover road, Kirkley road, etc. Hale de Jure Mar. pt. 2, c. 2. BOADSTED. In maritime law. A known general station for ships, notoriously used as such, and distinguished by the name; and not any spot where an anchor will find bottom and fix itself. 1 C. Bob. Adm. 232. BOBBATOB. In old English law. A robber. Robbatores et burglatores, robbers and burglars. Bract, fol. 1156. BOBBEB. One who commits a robbery. BOBBEBY. Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear. Pen. Code Cal. § 211; 1 Hawk. P. C. 25; 4 Bl. Comm. 243; 8 Wash. C. C. 209; 15 Ind. 288; 16 Miss. 401. Robbery is the wrongful, fiaudulent, and violent taking of money, goods, or chattels, from the person of another by force or in timidation, without the consent of the own er. Code Ga. 1882, § 4389. Robbery is where a person, either with violence or with threats of injury, and put ting the person robbed in fear, takes and carries a^way a thing which is on the body, or in the immediate presence of the person from whom it is taken, under such circum stances that, in the absence of violence or threats, the act committed would be a theft. Steph. Crim. Dig. 208; 2 Russ. Crimes, 78.

BOBE. Fr. A word anciently used by sailors for the cargo of a ship. The Italian "roba" had the same meaning. BOBEBDSMEN. In old English law. Persons who, in the reign of Richard I., committed great outrages on the borders of England and Scotland. Said .to have been the followers of Robert Hood, or Robin Hood. 4 Bl. Comm. 246. BOD. A lineal measure of sixteen feet and a half, otherwise called a "perch." BOD KNIGHTS. In feudal law. Cer tain servitors who held their land by serving their lords on horseback. Cowell. BOGABE. Lat. In Roman law. To ask or solicit. Rogare legem, to ask for the adoption of a law, i. e., to propose it for en actment, to bring in a bill. In a derivative sense, to vote for a law so proposed; to adopt or enact it. BOGATIO. Lat. In Roman law. An asking for a law; a proposal of a law for adoption or passage. Derivatively, a law passed by such a form. BOGATIO TESTIUM, in making a nuncupative will, is where the testator form ally calls upon the persons present to bear witness that he has declared his will. Will iams, Ex'rs, 116; Browne, Prob. Pr. 59. BOGATION WEEK. Thesecond week before Whitsunday, thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called "Rogation days," be cause of the extraordinary prayers then made for the fruits of the earth, or as a prepara tion for the devotion of Holy Thursday. Wharton. Bogationes, qusestiones, et positiones debent esse simplices. Hob. 143. De mands, questions, and claims ought to be simple. BOGATOB. Lat. In Roman law. The proposer of a law or rogation. BOGATOBY LETTEBS. A commis sion from one judge to another requesting him to examine a witness. BOGO. Lat. In Roman law. I ask; I request. A precatory expression often used in wills. Dig. 30, 108, 13, 14. BOGUE. In English criminal law. An idle and disorderly person; a trickster; a wandering beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. 4 Bl. Comm. 169.

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