Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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B. B. The second letter of the English alpha bet; is used to denote the second of a series of pages, notes, etc.; the subsequent letters, the third and following numbers. B. C._ An abbreviation for "before Christ," "bail court," and "bankruptcy cases." B. E. An abbreviation for "Baron of the Court of Exchequer." B. P. An abbreviation for bonum fao tum, a good or proper act, deed, or decree) signifies "approved." B. R. An abbreviation for Bancus Regis, (King's Bench,) or Bancus Reginoe, (Queen's Bench.) It is frequently round in the old books as a designation of that court. In more recent usage, the initial letters of the English names are ordinarily employed, i. e., K. B. or Q. B. B. S. Bancus Superior, that is, upper bench. "BABY ACT." A plea of infancy, inter posed for the purpose of defeating an action upon a contract made while the person was a minor, is vulgarly called "pleading the baby act." By extension, the term is applied to a plea of the statute of limitations. BACHELERIA. In old records. Com monalty or yeomanry, in contradistinction to baronage. BACHELOR. The holder of the first or lowest degree conferred by a college or uni versity, e. g., a bachelor of arts, bachelor of law, etc. A kind of inferior knight; an esquire. A man who has never been married. BACKWATER. Water in a stream which, in consequence of some dam or ob struction below, is detained or checked in its course, or flows back. Watei caused to flow backward from a steam-vessel by reason of the action of its wheels or screw. BACKBEAR. In forest law. Carrying on the back. One of the cases in which an offender against vert and venison might be arrested, as being taken with the mainour, or manner, or found carrying a deer off on his back. Man wood; Co well.

BACKBEREND. Sax. Bearing upon the back or about the person. Applied to a thief taken with the stolen property in his immediate possession. Bract. 1, 3, tr. 2, c. 32. Used with handhabend, having in the hand. BACKBOND. In Scotch law. A deed attaching a qualification or condition to the terms of a conveyance or other instrument. This deed is used when particular circum stances render it necessary to express in a separate form the limitations or qualifications of a right. Bell. The instrument is equiv alent to a declaration of trust in English con veyancing. BACKING. Indorsement; indorsement by a magistrate. BACKING A WARRANT. The war rant of a justice of the peace cannot be en forced or executed outside of his territorial jurisdiction unless a magistrate of the juris diction where it is to be executed indorses or writes on the back of such warrant an au thority for that purpose, which is thence termed "backing the warrant." BACKSIDE. In English law. A term formerly used in conveyances and also in pleading; it imports a yard at the back part of or behind a house, and belonging thereto. BACKWARDATION. In the language of the stock exchange, this term signifies a consideration paid for delay in the delivery of stock contracted for, when the price is lower for time than for cash. Dos Passos, Stock-Brok. 270. BACKWARDS. In a policy of marine insurance, the phrase "forwards and back wards at sea" means from port to port in the course of the voyage, and not merely from one terminus to the other and back. 1 Taunt. 475. BACULUS. A rod, staff, or wand, used in old English practice in making livery of seisin where no building stood on the land, (Bract. 40;) a stick or wand, by the erection of which on the land involved in a real ao tion the defendant was summoned to put in his appearance; this was called "baculutnun tiatorius." 8 Bl. Comm. 279. BAD, (in substance.) The technical word for unsoundness in pleading.

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