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; fields, where the plow was turned about, (otherwise called "headlands,") as sidelings were similar unplowed pieces on the sides. p - Burrill. L Also a place where bowmen meet to shoot t- at a mark. L , BUTTS AND BOUNDS. A phrase used t in conveyancing, to describe the end lines or t circumscribing lines of a certain piece of e land. The phrase "metes and bounds" has e the same meaning. BUTTY. A local term in the north of ' England, for the associate or deputy of an other ; also of things used in common. r BUY. To acquire the ownership of prop- [ erty by giving an accepted price or considera- , tion therefor; or by agreeing to do so; to ac- • quire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase. Webster. — Buy in. To purchase, at public sale, prop erty which is one's own or which one has caused or procured to be sold.— Buyer. One who buys; a purchaser; particularly of chattels.— Buying titles. The purchase of the rights or claims to real estate or a person who is not in possession of the land or is disseised. Void, and an offense, at common law. Whitaker v. , Cone, 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 59; Brinley v. J Whiting, 5 Pick. (Mass.) 356. I BY. This word, when descriptively used in a grant, does not mean "in immediate con tact with," but "near" to, the object to 1 which it relates; and "near" is a relative term, meaning, when used in land patents, very unequal and different distances. Wells 1 v. Mfg. Co., 48 N. H. 491. A contract to complete work by a certain time, means that it shall be done before that time. Rankin v. Woodworth, 3 Pen. & W. [ (Pa.) 48. 1 By an acquittance for the last pay ment all other arrearages are discharged. { Noy, 40. ' BY-BIDDING. See BID. BY BILL, BY BILL WITHOUT WRIT. In practice. Terms anciently used to des i ignate actions commenced by original biU, as distinguished from those commenced by original writ, and applied in modern practice to suits commenced by capias ad responden dum. 1 Arch. Pr. pp. 2, 337; Harkness y. Harkness, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 213. In conveyancing. A term used to indicate that the quantity of land as stated is estimated only, not exactly measured; has the same meaning and effect as the phrase "more or less." Tarbell v. Bowman, 103 Mass. 341; Mendenhall v. Steckel, 47 Md. 453, 28 Am. Rep. 481; Hays v. Hays, 126 Ind. 92, 25 N. E. 600, 11 L. R. A. 376. BY GOD AND MY COUNTRY. In old English criminal practice. The established BY ESTIMATION.

245; Milk v. Christie, 1 Hill (N. Y.) 106; Hockin v. Cooke, 4 Term, 316. BUSINESS. This word embraces every thing about which a person can be employed. People v. Com'rs of Taxes, 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. Goddard v. Chaffee, 2 Allen (Mass.) 395, 79 Am. Dec. 796; Sterne v. State, 20 Ala. 46. 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. Bloom v. Richards, 2 Ohio St. 387. Those hours of the day during which, in a given community, com mercial, banking, professional, public, or oth er 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 commu nity generally. Derosia v. Railroad Co., 18 Minn. 133, (Gil. 119.) BUSINESS HOURS. BUSSA. A term used in the old English law, to designate a large and clumsily con structed ship. BUTIiERAGE. A privilege formerly al lowed to the king's butler, to take a certain part of every cask of wine imported by an alien. In English law. A law for the heir to punish waste in the life of the ancestor. "Though it be on record in the parliament book of Edward I., yet it never was a statute, nor ever so re ceived; but only some constitution of the king's council, or lords in parliament, which never obtained the strength or force of an act of parliament" Hale, Hist Eng. Law, p. 18. BUTT. A measure of liquid capacity, «qual to one hundred and eight gallons; also •a measure of land. BUTLER'S ORDINANCE. BUSONES COMITATUS. law. The barons of. a county. In old English

BUTTALS.

The bounding lines of land

at the end; abuttals, which see.

BUTTED AND BOUNDED. A phrase sometimes used in conveyancing, to intro duce the boundaries of lands. See BUTTS AND BOUNDS. Short pieces of land left unplowed at the ends of BUTTS. In old English law.