Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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change, meaning one who speculates foraxise in the market. BULLA. A seal used by the Roman em perors, during the lower empire; and which was of four kinds,—gold, silver, wax, and lead. BULLETIN. An officially published no tice or announcement concerning the progress of matters of public importance. In France, the registry of the laws. BULLETIN DES LOIS. In France, the official sheet which publishes the laws and decrees; this publication constitutes the promulgation of the law or decree. BULLION. Gold and silver intended to be coined. The term is usually applied to a quantity of these metals ready for the mint, but as yet lying in bars, plates, lumps, or other masses; but it may also include orna ments or dishes of gold and silver, or foreign coins not current as money, when intended to be descriptive of its adaptability to be coined, and not of othor purposes to which it may be put. BULLION FUND. A fund of public money maintained in connection with the mints, for the purpose of purchasing precious metals for coinage. BUM-BAILIFF. A person employed to dun one for a debt; a bailiff employed to ar rest a debtor. Probably a vulgar corruption of "bound-bailiff," (q. v.) BUNDA. In old English law. A bound, boundary, border,or limit, (terminus, limes.) BUNGALOW. A country-house in the East Indies. BUOY. In maritime law. A piece of wood or cork, or a barrel, raft, or other thing, made secure and floating upon a stream or bay, intended as a guide and warning to mariners, by marking a spot where the water is shallow, or where there is a reef or other danger to navigation, or to mark the course of a devious channel. BURDEN OF PROOF. (Lat. onus pro. ba?idi.) In the law of evidence. The neces sity or duty of affirmatively proving a fact or facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause. The term "burden of proof" is not to be confused with "prfma facie case." When the party upon whom the burden of proof rests has made out a prima fade case, this will, in general, suffice to shift the burden.

collapse of the "South Sea Project," which, as Blackstone says, "had beggared half the nation." It was mostly repealed by the stat ute 6 Geo. IV. c. 91. BTJCKSTALL. A toil to take deer. 4Inst. 806. BUDGET. A name given in England to the statement annually presented to parlia ment by the chancellor of the exchequer, con taining the estimates of the national revenue and expenditure. BUGGERY. A carnal copulation against nature; and this is either by the confusion of species,—that is to say, a man or a woman with a brute beast,—or of sexes, as a man with a man, or man unnaturally with a wo man. 3 Inst. 58; 12 Coke, 36. BUILDING. A structure or edifice erect ed by the hand of man, composed of natural materials, as stone or wood, and intended for use or convenience. BUILDING LEASE. A lease of land for a long term of years, usually 99, at a rent called a "ground rent," the lessee covenant ing to erect certain edifices thereon according to specification, and to maintain the same, etc., during the term. BUILDING SOCIETY. An associa tion in which the subscriptions of the mem bers form a capital stock or fund out of which advances may be made to members desiring them, on mortgage security. BUL. In the ancient Hebrew chronology, the eighth month of the ecclesiastical, and the second of the civil, year. It has since been called "Marsheoan," and answeis to our Oc tober. BULK. Unbroken packages. Merchan dise which is neither counted, weighed, nor measured. Bulk is said of that which is neither count ed, weighed, nor measured. A sale by the bulk is the sale of a quantity such as it is, without measuring, counting, or weighing. Civil Code La. art. 3556, par. 6. BULL. In ecclesiastical law. An in strument granted by the pope of Rome, and sealed with a seal of lead, containing some decree, commandment, or other public act, emanating from the pontiff. Bull, in this sense, corresponds with edict or letters patent from other governments. Cowell; 4 Bl. Comm. 110; 4 Steph. Comm. 177, 179. This is also a cant term of the Stock Ex

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