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  • 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 More...
  • 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 provisions, as distinguished from the recitals, title, jurat etc.
  • BODY OF LAWS
    An organized and systematic 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 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, More...
  • BOILARY
    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 little bouse or cottage. Blount
  • BOLT
    Tbe 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 delegates to a political convention. Rap. & L.
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