Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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BUSONES COMITATUS

BURGOMASTER

king's private treasury by the burgesses 01 inhabitants of a borough. BURSA. A purse. BURSAR. A treasurer of a college. BURSARIA. The exchequer of collegiate or conventual bodies; or the place of receiv ing, paying, and accounting by the bursars. Also stipendiary scholars, who live upon the burse, fund, or joint-stock of the college. BURYING ALIVE. In English law. The ancient punishment of sodomites, and those who contracted with Jews. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 27, § 3. BURYING-GROUND. A place set apart for the interment of the dead; a ceme tery. BUSCARL. In Saxon and old English law. Seamen or marines. Spelman. BUSHEL. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts. But the dimensions of a bushel, and the weight of a bushel of grain, etc., vary in the different states in consequence of statu tory enactments. BUSINESS. This word embraces every thing about which a person can be employed. 23 N. Y. 242, 244. That which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for the purpose of a liveli hood or profit. The doing of a single act pertaining to a particular business will not be considered engaging in or carrying on the business; yet a series of such acts would be so considered. 50 Ala. 130. See, also, 2 Allen, 395; 38 N. J. Law, 237. Labor, business, and work are not synonyms. Labor may be business, but it is not necessarily so; and business is not always labor. Making an agreement for the sale of a chattel is not within a prohibition of labor upon Sunday, though it is (if by a merchant in his calling) within a prohibition upon business. 2 Ohio St. 887. BUSINESS HOURS. Those hours of the day during which, in a given community, commercial, banking, professional, public, or other kinds of business are ordinarily car ried on. This phrase is declared to mean not the time during which a principal requires an employee's services, but the business hours of the community generally. 18 Minn. 183, (OiL 119.) BUSONES COMITATUS. In old En glish law. The barons of a county,

For example: "Every person who enters any house, room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, mill, barn, stable, out house, or other building, tent, vessel, or rail road car, with intent to commit grand or petit larceny, or any felony, is guilty of burg lary." Pen. Code Gal. § 459. BURGOMASTER. The title given in Germany to the chief executive officer of a borough, town, or city; corresponding to our "mayor." BURGUNDIAN LAW. See LEX BUR GUND10NUM. BUB6WHAB. A burgess, (9. t».) BURIAL. Sepulture; the act of interring dead human bodies. BURKISM, (from the name of its first perpetrator.) The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dis section. BURLAW COURTS. In Scotch law. Courts consisting of neighbors selected by common consent to act as judges in deter mining disputes between neighbor and neigh bor. BURLAWS. In Scotch law. Laws made by neighbors elected by common consent in the burlaw courts. Skene. BURN. To consume with fire. The verb "to burn," in an indictment for arson, is to be taken in its common meaning of "to con sume with fire." 17 Ga. 130. Burning and setting fire to are not legal synonyms. 5 Grat. 664. BURNING FLUID. As used in policies of insurance, this term does not mean any fluid which will burn, but it means a recog nized article of commerce, called by that name, and which is a different article from naphtha or kerosene. 4 Fed. Rep. 766; 24 Hun, 569. BURNING IN THE HAND. In old English criminal law, laymen, upon being accorded the benefit of clergy, were burned with a hot iron in the brawn of the left thumb, in order that, being thus marked, they could not again claim their clergy. 4 BL Comm. 367. BURROCHIUM. A burroch, dam, or small wear over a river, where traps are laid for the taking of fish. Cowell. BURROWMEALIS. In Scotch law. A term used to designate the rents paid into the

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