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  • BOSCUS
    Wood; growing wood of any kind, large or small, timber or coppice. Cowell ; Jacob
  • BOTE
    In pld English law. A recompense or compensation, or profit or advantage. Also reparation or amends for any damage done. Necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. An allowance; the ancient name for estovers. House-bote is a sufficient allowance of wood from off the estate to repair or More...
  • BOTELESS
    In old English, law. Without amends; without the privilege of making satisfaction for a crime by a pecuniary payment ; without relief or remedy. Cowell.
  • BOTHA
    In old English law. A booth, stall, or tent to stand in, in fairs or markets. Cowell.
  • BOTHAGIUM, OR BOOTHAGE
    Customary dues paid to the lord of a manor or soil, for the pitching or standing of booths in fairs or markets.
  • BOTHNA, OR BUTHNA
    In old Scotch law. A park where cattle are Inclosed and fed. Bothna also signifies a barony, lordship, etc. Skene.
  • BOTTOMAGE
    L. Fr. Bottomry.
  • BOTTOMRY
    In maritime law. A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship borrows money for the use, equipment, or repair of the vessel, and for a definite term, and pledges the ship (or the keel or bottom of the ship, pars pro toto) as More...
  • BOTTOMRY BOND
    The Instrument embodying the contract or agreement of bottomry. The true definition of a bottomry bond, in the sense of the general maritime law, and independent of the peculiar regulations of the positive codes of different commercial nations, is that it is a contract for a loan of money on More...
  • BOUCHE
    Fr. The mouth. An allowance of provision. Avoir bouche d court; to have an allowance at court; to be In ordinary at court; to have meat and drink scot-free there. Blount; OowelL
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