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public corporation invested with powers and duties of government. It is often used, in a rather loose way, to designate the state or nation or sovereign power, or the govern ment of a county or municipality, without distinctly connoting any express and individ ual corporate character. Munn v. Illinois, 94 U. S. 124, 24 L. Ed. 77; Coyle v. Mcln tire, 7 Houst. (Del.) 44, 30 Atl. 728, 40 Am. St. Rep. 109; Warner v. Beers, 23 Wend. (N. Y.) 122; People v. Morris, 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 334. Water arising from a salt well belonging to a person who is not the owner of the soil. BOIS, or BOYS. L. Fr. Wood; timber; brush. BOLHAGIUM, or BOLDAGIUM. A lit tle house or cottage. Blount BOLT. The desertion by one or more persons from the political party to which he or they belong; the permanent withdrawal before adjournment of a portion of the dele gates to a political convention- Rap. & L. BOLTING. In English practice. A term formerly used in the English inns of court, but more particularly at Gray's Inn, signify ing the private arguing of cases, as distin guished from mooting, which was a more formal and public mode of argument Cow ell; Tomlins; Holthouse. BOMBAY REGULATIONS. Regula tions passed for the presidency of Bombay, and the territories subordinate thereto. They were passed by the governors in council of Bombay until the year 1834, when the power of local legislation ceased, and the acts re lating thereto were thenceforth passed by the governor general of India in council. Moz ley & Whitley. BON. Fr. In old French law. A royal order or check on the treasury, invented by Francis I. Bon pour mille livres, good for a thousand livres. Step. Lect 387. In modern law. The name of a clause (bon pour , good for so much) added to a cedule or promise, where it is not in the handwriting of the signer, containing the amount of the sum which he obliges himself to pay. Poth. Obi. part 4, ch. 1, art 2, § 1. BONA. Lat n. Goods; property; pos sessions. In the Roman law, this term was used to designate all species of property, real, personal, and mixed, but was more strictly applied to real estate. In modern civil law, it includes both personal property (technically so called) and Chattels real, thus corresponding to the French Mens. In the common law, its use was confined to the de- BOILARY.

ter land. Land boc, a writing for convey ing land; a deed or charter; a land-book. — Boo horde. A place where books, writings, or evidences were kept. Cowell.— Boo land. In Saxon law. Allodial lands held by deed or other written evidence of title. BOCERAS. Sax. A scribe, notary, or chancellor among the Saxo,ns. BODILY. Pertaining to or concerning the body; of or belonging to the body or the physical constitution; not mental but cor poreal. Electric R. Co. v. Lauer, 21 Ind. App. 466, 52 N. E. 703. —Bodily harm. Any touching of the person of another against his will with physical force, in an intentional, hostile, and aggressive man ner, or a projecting of such force against his person. People v. Moore, 50 Hun, 356, 3 N. Y. Supp. 159.— Bodily heirs. Heirs begotten or borne by the person referred to; lineal descend ants. This term is equivalent to "heirs of the body." Turner v. Hause, 199 111. 464, 65 N. E. 445; Craig v. Ambrose, 80 Ga. 134, 4 S. B. 1 ; Righter v. Forrester, 1 Bush (Ky.) 278.— Bodi ly injury. Any physical or corporeal injury; not necessarily restricted to injury to the trunk or main part of the body as distinguished from the head or limbs. Quirk v. Siegel-Cooper Co., 43 App.'Div. 464, 60 N. Y. Supp. 228. BODMERIE, BODEMERIE, BODDE MEBEY. Belg. and Germ. Bottomry, (q. v.) BODY. A person. Used of a natural body, or of an artificial one created by law, as a corporation. Also the main part of any instrument; in deeds it is spoken of as distinguished from the recitals and other introductory parts and signatures; in affidavits, from the title and jurat. The main part of the human body; the trunk. Sanchez v. People, 22 N. Y. 149; State v. Edmundson, 64 Mo. 402; Walker v. State, 34 Ma. 167, 16 South. 80, 43 Am. St, Rep. 186. BODY CORPORATE. A corporation. BODY OF A COUNTY. A county at large, as distinguished from any particular place within it A county considered as a territorial whole. State v. Arthur, 39 Iowa, 632; People v. Dunn, 31 App. Div. 139, 52 N. Y. Supp. 968. BODY OF AN INSTRUMENT. The main and operative part; the substantive pro visions, as distinguished from the recitals, title, jurat, etc. BODY OF LAWS. An organized and sys tematic collection of rules of jurisprudence; as, particularly, the body of the civil law, or corpus juris civilis. BODY POLITIC. A term applied to a corporation, which is usually designated as a "body corporate and politic." The term is particularly appropriate to a