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  • BALANCE
    The amount remaining due from one person to another on a settlement of the accounts Involving their mutual dealings; the difference between the two sides (debit and credit) of an account A balance is the conclusion or result of the debit and credit sides of an account. It implies mutual More...
  • BALCANIFER, OR BALDAKINIFER
    The standard-bearer of the Knights Templar.
  • BALCONIES
    Small galleries of wood or stone on the outside of houses. The erection of them is regulated in London by the building acts.
  • BALDIO
    In Spanish law. Waste land; land that is neither arable nor pasture. White New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, | 4, and note. Unappropriated public domain, not set apart for the support of municipalities. Sheldon y. Milmo, 90 Tex. 1, 36 S. W. 415.
  • BALE
    A pack or certain quantity of goods or merchandise, wrapped or packed up in cloth and corded round very tightly, marked and numbered with figures corresponding to those in the bills of lading for the purpose of identification. Wharton. A bale of cotton is a certain quantity of that commodity More...
  • BALISE
    Fr. In French marine law. A buoy.
  • BALIUS
    In the civil law. A teacher; one who has the care of youth; a tutor; a guardian. Du Cange; Spelman.
  • BALIVA
    L. Lat. In old English law - A bailiwick, or jurisdiction.
  • BALLAST
    In marine insurance. There is considerable analogy between ballast and dunnage. The former is used for trimming-the ship, and bringing it down to a draft of water proper and safe for sailing. Dunnage* is placed under the cargo to keep it from being wetted by water getting into the hold, More...
  • BALLASTAGE
    A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast from the bottom of a port or harbor.
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