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  • BLACKLEG
    A person who gets his living by frequenting race-courses and places where games of chance are played, getting the best odds, and giving the least he can, but not necessarily cheating. That is not indictable either by statute or at common law. Burnett v. Allen, 3 HurL A N. 379.
  • BLADA
    In old English law. Growing erops of grain of any kind. Spelman. All manner of annual grain. Cowell. Harvested grain. Bract. 2176; Reg. Orig. 94b, 95.
  • BLADARIUS
    In old English law. A corn-monger; meal-man-or corn-chandler; a bladier, or engrosser of corn - or grain. Blount
  • BLANC SEIGN
    In Louisiana, a paper signed at the bottom by him who intends to bind himself, give acquittance, or compromise, at the discretion of the person whom he intrusts with such blanc seign, giving him power to fill it with what he may think proper, according to agreement Musson v. U. More...
  • BLANCH HOLDING
    An ancient tenure of the law of Scotland, the duty payable being trifling, as a penny or a pepper-corn, etc., If required; similar to free and common socage.
  • BLANCHE FIRME
    White rent; a rent reserved, payable In silver.
  • BLANCUS
    In old law and practice. White; plain; smooth; blank.
  • BLANK
    A space left unfilled in a written document, In which one or more words or marks are to be inserted to complete the sense. Angle v. Insurance Co., 92 U. S. 337, 23 L. Ed. 556. Also a skeleton or printed form for any legal document, in which the necessary More...
  • BLANKET POLICY
    In the law of fire Insurance. A policy which contemplates that the risk Is shifting, fluctuating, or varying, and is applied to a class of property, rather than to any particular article or thing. 1 Wood, Ins. | 40. See Insurance Co. v. Baltimore Warehouse Co., 93 U. S. 541, More...
  • BLANKS
    A kind of white money, (value 8d.,) coined by Henry V. in those parts of France which were then subject to England; forbidden to be current in that realm by 2 Hen. VI. o. 9. Wharton.
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