Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

BOUNTY

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BOTTOMRY BOND

or exchanged in the course of the voyage, the bor rower's personal responsibility is deemed the prin cipal security for the performance of the contract, which is therefore called "respondentia, n which see. And in a loan upon respondentia the lender must be paid his principal and interest though the ship perish, provided the goods are saved. In most other respects the contracts of bottomry and of respondentia stand substantially upon the same footing. Bouvier. BOTTOMRY BOND. The instrument embodying the contract or agreement of bot tomry. The true definition of a bottomry bond, in the sense of the general maritime law, and independ ent of the peculiar regulations of the positive codes of different commercial nations, is that it is a contract for a loan of money on the bottom of the ship, at an extraordinary interest, upon mari time risks, to be borne by the lender for a voyage, or for a definite period. 2 Sum. 157. BOUCHE. Fr. The mouth. An allow ance of provision. Avoir bouche a court; to have an allowance at court; to be in ordinary at court, to have meat and drink scot-free there. Blount; Cowell. BOUCHE OF COURT, or BUDGE OF COURT. A certain allowance of provision from the king to his knights and servants, who attended him on any military expedi tion. BOUGH OF A TREE. In feudal law. A symbol which gave seisin of land, to hold of the donor in capite. BOUGHT AND SOLD NOTES. When a broker is employed to buy and sell goods, he is accustomed to give to the buyer a note of the sale, commonly called a "sold note," and to the seller a like note, commonly called a "bought note," in his own name, as agent of each, and thereby they are re spectively bound, if he has not exceeded his authority. Story, Ag. § 28. BOULEVARD. The word " boulevard," which originally indicated a bulwark or ram part, and was afterwards applied to a pub lic walk or road on the site of a demolished fortification, is now employed in the same sense as public drive. A park is a piece of ground adapted and set apart for pur poses of ornament, exercise, and amusement. It is not a street or road, though carriages may pass through it. So a boulevard or public drive is adapted and set apart for purposes of ornament, ex ercise, and amusement. It is not technically a street, avenue, or highway, though a car riage-way over it is a chief feature. 52 How. Pr. 415.

BOUND. As an adjective, denotes the condition of being constrained by the obli gations of a bond or a covenant. In the law of shipping, "bound to" or "bound for" denotes that the vessel spoken of is intended or designed to make the voyage to the place named. As a noun, the term denotes a limit or boundaiy, or a line inclosing or marking off a tract of land. In the familiar phrase "metes and bounds," the former term prop erly denotes the measured distances, and the latter the natural or artificial marks which indicate their beginning and ending. A dis tinction is sometimes taken between "bound" and "boundary," to the effect that, while the former signifies the limit itself, (and may be an imaginary line,) the latter designates a visible mark which indicates the limit. But no such distinction is commonly observed. BOUND BAILIFFS. In English law. Sheriffs' officers are so called, from their be ing usually bound to the sheriff in an obli gation with sureties, for the due execution of their office. I Bl. Comin. 345, 346. BOUNDARY. By boundary is under stood, in general, every separation, natural or artificial, which marks the confines or line of division of two contiguous estates. Trees or hedges may be planted, ditches may be dug, walls or inclosures may be erected, to serve as boundaiies. But we most usually understand by boundaries stones or pieces of wood inserted in the earth on the confines of the two estates. Civil Code La. art. 826. Boundaries are either natural or artificial. Of the former kind are water-courses, grow ing trees, beds of rock, and the like. Artifi cial boundaries are landmarks or signs erect ed by the hand of man, as a pole, stake, pile of stones, etc. BOUNDED TREE. A tree marking or standing at the corner of a field or estate. BOUNDERS. In American law. Visi ble marks or objects at the ends of the lines drawn in surveys of land, showing the courses and distances. Burrill. BOUNDS. In the English law of mines, the trespass committed by a person who ex cavates minerals under-ground beyond the boundary of his land is called " working out of bounds." BOUNTY. A gratuity, or an unusual or additional benefit conferred upon, or com pensation paid to, a class of persons. A premium given or offered to induce men

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