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  • BI-SCOT
    In old English law. A fine imposed for not repairing banks, ditches, and causeways.
  • BISHOP
    In English law. An ecclesiastical dignitary, being the chief of the clergy within his diocese, subject to the archbishop of the province in which his diocese Is situated. Most of the bishops are also members of the House of Lords.
  • BISHOPRIC
    In ecclesiastical law. The diocese of a bishop, or the circuit in which he has jurisdiction; the office of a bishop. 1 Bl. Comm. 377-382.
  • BISHOP'S COURT
    In English law. An ecclesiastical court, held in the cathedral of each diocese, the Judge whereof is the bishop's chancellor, who judges by the civil canon law; and, if the diocese be large, he has his commissaries in remote parts, who hold consistory courts, for matters limited to them by More...
  • BISSEXTILE
    The day which is added every fourth year to the month of February. in order to make the year.agree with the course of tbe sun. Leap year, consisting of 306 days, and happening every fourth year, by the addition of a day in the month of February, which in that More...
  • BLACK ACRE AMD WHITE ACRE
    Fictitious names applied to pieces of land, and used as examples in the old books.
  • BLACK ACT
    The statute 9 Geo. I. c. 22, so called because it was occasioned by the outrages committed by persons with their faces blacked or otherwise disguised, who appeared in. Epping Forest, near Waltham, In Essex, and destroyed the deer there, and committed other offenses. Repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. More...
  • BLACK ACTS
    Old Scotch statutes passed in the reigns of the Stuarts and down to the year 1580 or 1587, so called because printed in black letter. Bell.
  • BLACK BOOK OF HEREFORD
    In English law. An old record frequently referred to by Cowell and other early writers.
  • BLACK BOOK OF THE ADMIRALTY
    A book of the highest authority in admiralty matters, generally supposed to have been compiled during the reign of Edward III. with additions of a later date. It contains the laws of Gleron, a view of crimes and offenses cognizable in the admiralty, and many other matters. See DeLovio v. More...
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