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  • BARREN MONEY
    In the civil law. A debt which bears no interest.
  • BARRENNESS
    Sterility; the incapacity to bear children.
  • BARRETOR
    In criminal law. A common mover, exciter, or maintainer of suits and quarrels either in courts or elsewhere in the country; a disturber of the peace who spreads false rumors and calumnies, whereby discord and disquiet may grow among neighbors. Co. Litt. 368. -Common barretor. One who frequently excites and More...
  • BARRETRY
    In criminal law. The act or offense of a barretor, (q. v.;) usually called "common barretry." The offense of frequently exciting and stirring up suits and quarrels, either at law or otherwise. 4 Bl. Comm. 134; 4 Steph. Comm. 262.
  • BARRIER
    In mining law and the usage of miners, is a wall of coal left between two mines.
  • BARRISTER
    In English law. An advocate; one who has been called to the bar. A counsellor learned in the law who pleads at the bar of the courts, and who is engaged in conducting the trial or argument of causes. To be distinguished from the attorney, who draws the pleadings, prepares More...
  • BARTER
    A contract by which parties exchange goods or commodities for other goods. It differs from sale, in this: that in the latter transaction goods or property are always exchanged for money. Guerreiro v. Peile, 3 Barn. & Aid. 617; Cooper v. State, 37 Ark. 418; Meyer v. Rousseau, 47 Ark. More...
  • BARTON
    In old English law. The demesne land of a manor; a farm distinct from the mansion.
  • BAS
    Fr. Low; inferior; subordinate. -Bas chevaliers. In old English law. Low, or inferior knights, by tenure of a base military fee, as distinguished from barons and bannerets, who. were the chief or superior knights. Cowell.-Bas ville. In French law. The suburbs of a town.
  • BASE
    adj. Low; Inferior; servile; of subordinate degree; Impure, adulterated, or alloyed. -Base animal. See ANIMAL.-Base bullion. Base silver bullion is silver in bars mixed to a greater or less extent with alloys or base materials. Hope Min.' Co. v. Kennon, 3 Mont. 44.-Base coin. Debased, adulterated, or alloyed coin. Gabe More...
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