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  • BORROW
    To solicit and receive from another any article of property or thing of value with the intention and promise to repay or return it or its equivalent Strictly speaking, borrowing implies a gratuitous loan; if any price or consideration is to be paid for the use of the property, it More...
  • BORROWE
    In old Scotch law. A pledge.
  • BORSHOLDER
    In Saxon law. The borough's ealder, or headborough, supposed to be in the dlscreetest man in the borough, town, or tithing.
  • BOSCAGE
    In English law. The food which wood and trees yield to cattle; browse-wood, mast, etc. Spelman. An ancient duty of wind-fallen wood In the forest Manwood.
  • BOSCARIA
    Wood-houses, or ox-houses.
  • BOSCUS
    Wood; growing wood of any kind, large or small, timber or coppice. Cowell ; Jacob
  • BOTE
    In pld English law. A recompense or compensation, or profit or advantage. Also reparation or amends for any damage done. Necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. An allowance; the ancient name for estovers. House-bote is a sufficient allowance of wood from off the estate to repair or More...
  • BOTELESS
    In old English, law. Without amends; without the privilege of making satisfaction for a crime by a pecuniary payment ; without relief or remedy. Cowell.
  • BOTHA
    In old English law. A booth, stall, or tent to stand in, in fairs or markets. Cowell.
  • BOTHAGIUM, OR BOOTHAGE
    Customary dues paid to the lord of a manor or soil, for the pitching or standing of booths in fairs or markets.
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