KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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BORGH OF HAMHALD

BOOM

BORD-BRIGCH. In Saxon law. A breach or violation of suretyship; pledge breach, or breach of mutual fidelity. BORDER WARRANT. A process grant ed by a judge ordinary, on either side of the border between England and Scotland, for arresting the person or effects of a per son living on the opposite side, until he find security, judicio sisti. Bell. In French law. A note enumerating the purchases and sales which may have been made by a broker or stock broker. This name is also given to the state ment given to a banker with bills for dis count or coupons' to receive. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 547. BOBO-HALFPENNT. A customary small toll paid to the lord of a town for set ting up boards, tables, booths, etc., in fairs or markets. BOBOLANDS. The demesnes which the lords keep in their hands for the mainte nance of their board or table. Cowell. Also lands held in bordage. Lands which the lord gave to tenants on condition of their supplying his table with small provi sions, poultry, eggs, etc. BORDLODE. A service anciently requir ed of tenants to carry timber out of the woods of the lord to his house; or it is said to be the quantity of food or provision which the bordarii or bordmen paid for their bord lands. Jacob. BORDEREAU. BOREL-FOLK. Country people; deriv ed from the French bourre, (Lat. floccus,) a lock of wool, because they covered their heads with such stuff. Blount BORG. In Saxon law. A pledge, pledge giver, or surety. The name given among the Saxons to the head of each family com posing a tithing or decennary, each being the pledge for the good conduct of the oth ers. Also the contract or engagement of suretyship; and the pledge giver BORGBRICHE. A breach or violation of suretyship, or of mutual fidelity. Jacob. In Saxon law. The name given to the head of each family com posing a tithing. BORGH OF HAMHAXD. In old Scotch law. A pledge or surety given by the seller of goods to the buyer, to make the goods forthcoming as his own proper goods, and to warrant the same to him. Skene. BORGESMON. BORDSERVICE. A tenure of bord lands.

273; Wilson v. Wilson, 6 N. J. Law, 96; Se curity Co. v. Graybeal, 85 Iowa, 543, 52 N. W. 497, 39 Am. St Rep. 311; Colbert v. Piercy, 25 N. C. 80. BOOM. An inclosure formed upon the surface of a stream or other body of water, by means of piers and a chain of spars, for the purpose of collecting or storing logs or timber. Powers' Appeal, 125 Pa. 175, 17 Att. 254, 11 Am. St. Rep. 882; Lumber Co. v. Green, 76 Mich. 320, 43 N. W. 576; Gas per v. Heimbach, 59 Minn. 102, 60 N. W. 1080; Boom Corp. v. Whiting, 29 Me. 123. BOOM COMPANY. A eompany formed for the purpose of improving streams for the floating of logs, by means of booms and other contrivances, and for the purpose of running, driving, booming, and rafting logs. A charge on logs for the use of a boom in collecting, storing, or raft ing them. Lumber Co. v. Thompson, 83 Miss. 499, 35 South. 828. A right of entry on riparian lands for the purpose of fasten ing booms and boom sticks. Farrand v. Clarke, 63 Minn. 181, 65 N. W. 361. BOON DAYS. In English law. Certain days in the year (sometimes called "due days") on which tenants in copyhold were obliged to perform corporal services for the lord. Whishaw. BOOT, or BOTE. An old Saxon word, equivalent to "estovers." BOOTING, or BOTING, CORN. Cer tain rent corn, anciently so called. Powell. Property captured from the enemy in war, on land, as distinguished from "prize," which is a capture of such property on the sea. U. S. v. Bales of Cot ton, 28 Fed. Cas. 302; Coolidge v. Guthrie, 6 Fed. Cas. 461. BORD. An old Saxon word, signifying a cottage; a house; a table. BOBDAGE. In old English law. A species of base tenure, by which certain lands (termed "bord lands,") were anciently held in England, the tenants being termed "bordarii;" the service was that of keep ing the lord in small provisions. BORDARIA. A cottage. BORDARII, or BORDIMANNI. In old English law. Tenants of a less servile con dition than the villani, who had a bord or cottage, with a small parcel of land, allow ed to them, on condition they should supply the lord with poultry and eggs, and other small provisions for his board or entertain ment Spelman. BL.LAW DIOT.(2D ED.)—10 BOOMAGE. BOOTY.