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  • BRUGBOTE
    See BRIGBOTE.
  • BRUILLUS
    In old English law. A wood or grove; a thicket or clump of trees in a park or forest Cowell.
  • BRUISE
    In medical jurisprudence. A contusion; an injury upon the llesh of a person with a blunt or heavy instrument with-, out solution of continuity, or without breaking the skin. Shadock v. Road Co., 79 Mich. 7, 44 N. W. 158; State v. Owen, 5 N. C. 452, 4 Am. Dec. More...
  • BRUKBARN
    In old Swedish law. The child of a woman conceiving after a rape, which was made legitimate. Literally, the child of a struggle. Burrill.
  • BRUTUM FULMEN
    An empty noise; an empty threat.
  • BUBBLE
    An extravagant or unsubstantial project for extensive operations in business or commerce, generally founded on a fictitious or exaggerated prospectus, to ensnare unwary investors. Companies formed on such a basis or for such purposes are called "bubble companies." The term is chiefly used in England.
  • BUBBLE ACT
    The statute 6 Geo. I. c 18, "for restraining several extravagant and unwarrantable practices herein mentioned," was so called. It prescribed penalties for the formation of companies with little or no capital, with tbe intention, by means of alluring advertisements, of obtaining money from the public by the sale of More...
  • BUCKET SHOP
    An office or place (other than a regularly incorporated or licensed excnange) where information is posted as to the fluctuating prices of stocks, grain, cotton, or other commodities, and where persons lay wagers on the rise and fall of such prices under the pretence of buying and selling such commodities. More...
  • BUCKSTALL
    A toil, net, or snare, to take deer. 4 Inst 306.
  • BUDGET
    A name given in England to the statement annually presented to parliament by the chancellor of the exchequer, containing the estimates of the national revenue and expenditure.
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