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  • BI-METALLISM
    The legalized use of two metals in the currency of a country at a fixed relative value.
  • BIND
    To obligate; to bring or place under definite duties or legal obligations, particularly by a bond or covenant; to affect one in a constraining or compulsory manner with a contract or a judgment. So long as a contract, an adjudication, or a legal relation remains in force and virtue, and More...
  • BIND OUT
    To place one under a legal obligation to serve another; as to bind out an apprentice.
  • BINDING OVER
    The act by which a court or magistrate requires a person to enter into a recognizance or furnish bail to appear for trial, to keep tbe peace, to attend as a witness, etc.
  • BIPARTITE
    Consisting of, or divisible into, two parts. A term in conveyancing descriptive of an instrument in two parts, and executed by both parties.
  • BIRRETUM, BIRRETUS
    A cap or coif used formerly in England by judges and Serjeants at law. Spelman.
  • BIRTH
    The act of being born or wholly brought into separate existence. Wallace v. State, 10 Tex. App. 270.
  • BIS
    Lat Twice. Bis Idem exlgi bona fides non patitnr; et in satlsfaetionibns non permittitnr amplins fieri qnam semel factum est. Good faith does not suffer the same thing to be demanded twice; and in making satisfaction [for a debt or demand] it is not allowed to be done more than More...
  • BISAILE
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • BISANTIUM, BESANTINE, BEZANT
    An ancient coin, first issued at Constantinople ; it was of two sorts,-gold, equivalent to a ducat, valued at 9s. 6d.; and silver, computed at 2s. They were both current in England. Wharton.
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