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  • BLACK ACRE AMD WHITE ACRE
    Fictitious names applied to pieces of land, and used as examples in the old books.
  • BLACK ACT
    The statute 9 Geo. I. c. 22, so called because it was occasioned by the outrages committed by persons with their faces blacked or otherwise disguised, who appeared in. Epping Forest, near Waltham, In Essex, and destroyed the deer there, and committed other offenses. Repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. More...
  • BLACK ACTS
    Old Scotch statutes passed in the reigns of the Stuarts and down to the year 1580 or 1587, so called because printed in black letter. Bell.
  • BLACK BOOK OF HEREFORD
    In English law. An old record frequently referred to by Cowell and other early writers.
  • BLACK BOOK OF THE ADMIRALTY
    A book of the highest authority in admiralty matters, generally supposed to have been compiled during the reign of Edward III. with additions of a later date. It contains the laws of Gleron, a view of crimes and offenses cognizable in the admiralty, and many other matters. See DeLovio v. More...
  • BLACK BOOK OF THE EXCHEQUER
    The name of an ancient book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties, conventions, charters, etc.
  • BLACK CAP
    The head-dress worn by the judge in pronouncing the sentence of death. It is part of the judicial full dress, and is worn by tbe judges on occasions of especial state. Wharton.
  • BLACK CODE
    A name given collectively to the body of laws, statutes, and rules in force in various southern states prior to 1865, which regulated the institution of slavery, and particularly those forbidding their reception at public inns and on public conveyances. Civil Rights Cases, 109 U. S. 3, 3 Sup. Ct More...
  • BLACK GAME
    In English law. Heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, as grouse.
  • BLACK-LIST
    A list of persons marked out for special avoidance, antagonism, or enmity on the part of those who prepare the list or those among whom it is intended to circulate; as where a trades-union "blacklists" workmen who refuse to conform to its rules, or where a list of insolvent or More...
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