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  • BATIMENT
    In French marine law. A vessel or ship.
  • BATONNIER
    The chief of the French bar in its various centres, who presides in the council of discipline. Arg. Fr. Merc. LAW, 546.
  • BATTEL
    Trial by combat; wager of battel.
  • BATTEL, WAGER OF
    In old English law. A form of trial anciently used in military cases, arising in the court of chivalry and honor, in appeals of felony, In criminal cases, and in the obsolete real action called a "writ of action." The question at issue was decided by the result of a More...
  • BATTERY
    Any unlawful beating, or ether wrongful physical violence or constraint, inflicted on a human being without his consent 2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 71; Good-rum v. State, 60 Ga. 511; Razor v. Kinsey, 55 111. App. 614; Lamb v. State, 67 Md. 524, 10 Atl. 209, 298; Hunt v. People, More...
  • BATTTURE
    In Louisiana. A marine term used to denote a bottom of sand, stone, or rock mixed together and rising towards the surface of the water; an elevation of the bed of a river under the surface of the water, since it is rising towards it; sometimes, however, used to denote More...
  • BAWD
    One who procures opportunities for persons of opposite sexes to cohabit in an illicit manner; who may be, while exercising the trade of a bawd, perfectly innocent of committing in his or her own proper person the crime either of adultery or of fornication. See Dyer v. Morris, 4 Mo. More...
  • BAWDY-HOUSE
    A house of prostitution; a brothel. A house or dwelling maintained for the convenience and resort of persons desiring unlawful sexual connection. Davis v. State, 2 Tex. App. 427; State v. Porter, 88 Ark. 638; People v. Buchanan, 1 Idaho, 689.
  • BAY
    A pond-head made of a great height to keep in water for the supply of a mill, etc., so that the wheel of the mill may be turned by the water rushing thence, through a passage or flood-gate. St. 27 Eliz. c. 19. Also an arm of the sea surrounded More...
  • BAYLEY
    In old English law. Bailiff. This term is used in the laws of the colony of New Plymouth, Mass., A. D. 1670, 1671. Burrill.
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