In Saxon law. A book or writing; a deed or charter. Boc land, deed or charter land. Land boc, a writing for conveying land; a deed or charter; a land-book.
-Boc horde. A place where books, writings, or evidences were kept. Cowell.-Boc land. In Saxon law. Allodial lands held by More...
Sax. A scribe, notary, or chancellor among the Saxons.
Pertaining to or concerning the body; of or belonging to the body or the physical constitution; not mental but corporeal. Electric R. Co. v. Lauer, 21 Ind. App. 466, 52 N. E. 703.
-Bodily harm. Any touching of the person of another against his will with physical force, in an More...
Belg. and Germ. Bottomry, (q. v.)
A person. Used of a natural body, or of an artificial one created by law, as a corporation.
Also the main part of any instrument; in deeds it is spoken of as distinguished from the recitals and other introductory parts and signatures; In affidavits, from the title and jurat:
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A corporation.
A county at large, as distinguished from any particular place within it. A county considered as a territorial whole. State v. Arthur, 39 Iowa, 632; People v. Dunn, 31 App. Div. 139, 52 N. Y. Supp. 968.
The main and operative part; the substantive provisions, as distinguished from the recitals, title, jurat etc.
An organized and systematic collection of rules of Jurisprudence; as, particularly, the body of the civil law, or Corpus juris civilis.