Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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BASE FEE

BATABLE-GROUND

BASE FEE. In English law. An es tate or fee which has a qualification subjoined thereto, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at an end. 2 Bl. Comm. 109. BASE-INFEFTMENT. In Scotch law. A disposition of lands by a vassal, to be held of himself. BASE RIGHT. In Scotch law. A sub ordinate right; the right of a subvassal in the lands held by him. Bell. BASE SERVICES. In feudal law. Such services as were unworthyJp be per formed by the nobler men, and were per formed by the peasants and those of servile rank. 2 Bl. Comm. 61. BASE TENANTS. Tenants who per formed to their lords services in villenage; tenants who held at the will of the lord, as distinguished from frank tenants, or free holders. Cowell. BASE TENURE. A tenure by villen age, or other customary service, as distin guished from tenure by military service; or from tenure by free service. Cowell. BASILEUS. A Greek word, meaning "king." A title assumed by the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire. It is used by Justinian in some of the Novels; and is said to have been applied to the English kings be fore the Conquest. See 1 Bl. Comm. 242. BASILICA. The name given to a com pilation of Roman and Greek law, prepared about A. D. 880 by the Emperor Basilius, and published by his successor, Leo the Phi losopher. It was written in Greek, was mainly an abridgment of Justinian's Corpus Juris, and comprised sixty books, only a por tion of which are extant. It remained the law of the Eastern Empire until the fall of Constantinople, in 1453. BASILS. In old English law. A kind of money or coin abolished by Henry II. BASIN. In admiralty law and marine insurance. A part of the sea inclosed in rocks. 13 Amer. Jur. 286. BASKET TENURE. In feudal law. Lands held by the service of making the king's baskets. BASSE JUSTICE. In feudal law. Low justice; the right exercised by feudal lords of personally trying persons charged with trespasses or minor offenses.

BASTARD. An illegitimate child; 8 child born of an unlawful intercourse, and while its parents are not united in marriage. A child born after marriage, but under circumstances which render it impossible that the husband of his mother can be his father. 6 Bin. 283. One begotten and born out of lawful wed lock. 2 Kent, Comm. 208. One born of an illicit union. Civil Code La. arts. 29, 199. A bastard is a child born out of wedlock, and whose parents do not subsequently inter marry, or a child the issue of adulterous in tercourse of the wife during wedlock. Code Ga. 1882, § 1797. BASTARD EIGNE. In old English law. Bastard elder. If a child was born of an illicit connection, and afterwards the parents intermarried and had another son, the elder was called "bastard eigne," and the younger "mulier puisne," i. e., after wards born of the wife. See 2 Bl. Comm. 248. BASTARDA. In old English law. A female bastard. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5, § 40. BASTARDIZE. To declare one a bas tard, as a court does. To give evidence to prove one a bastard. A mother (married) cannot bastardize her child. Bastardus nullius est filius, aut fllius populi. A bastard is nobody's son, or the son of the people. Bastardus non potest habere hseredem nisi de corpora suo legitime proereatum. A bastard can have no heir unless it be one lawfully begotten of his own body. Tray. Lat. Max. 51. BASTARDY. The offense of begetting a bastard child. The condition of a bastard. BASTARDY PROCESS. The method provided by statute of proceeding against the putative father to secure a proper mainte nance for the bastard. BASTON. In old English law, a baton, club, or staff. A term applied to officers of the wardens of the prison called the "Fleet," because of the staff carried by them. Cowell; Spelman; Termes de la Ley. BATABLE-GROUND. Land that is in controversy, or about the possession of which there is a dispute, as the lands which were situated between England and Scotland be fore the Union. Skene.

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