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  • BURSARIA
    The exchequer of collegiate or conventual bodies; or the place of receiving, paying, and accounting by the bursars. Also stipendiary scholars, who live upon the burse, fund, or joint-stock of the college.
  • BURYING ALIVE
    In English law. The ancient punishment of sodomites, and those who contracted with Jews. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 27, f 3.
  • BURYING-GROUND
    A place set apart for the interment of the dead; a cemetery. Appeal Tax Court v. Academy, 50 Md. 353.
  • BUSCARL
    In Saxon and old English law. Seamen or marines. Spelman.
  • BUSHEL
    A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts. But the dimensions of a bushel, and the weight of a bushel of grain, etc., vary in the different states in consequence of statutory enactments. Richardson v. Spafford, 13 Vt 245; Milk v. Christie, 1 Hill (N. Y.) 106; More...
  • BUSINESS
    This word embraces everything about which a person can be employed. People v. Com'rs of Taxes, 23 N. Y. 242, 244. That which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit The doing of a single act pertaining to a particular business More...
  • BUSINESS HOURS
    Those hours of the day during which, in a given community, commercial, banking, professional, public, or other kinds of business are ordinarily carried on. This phrase is declared to mean not the time during which a principal requires an employee's services, but the business hours of the community generally. Derosia More...
  • BUSONES COMITATUS
    In old English law. The barons of a county.
  • BUSSA
    A term used in the old English law, to designate a large and clumsily constructed ship.
  • BUTLERAGE
    A privilege formerly allowed to the king's butler, to take a certain part of every cask of wine imported by an alien.
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