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  • BUTLER'S ORDINANCE
    In English law. A law for the heir to punish waste in the life of the ancestor. Though it be on record in the parliament book of Edward I., yet it never was a statute, nor ever so received; but only some constitution of the king's council, or lords in More...
  • BUTT
    A measure of liquid capacity, equal to one hundred and eight gallons; also a measure of land.
  • BUTTALS
    The bounding lines of land at the end; abuttals, which see.
  • BUTTED AND BOUNDED
    A phrase sometimes used in conveyancing, to introduce the boundaries of lands. See BUTTS AND BOUNDS.
  • BUTTS
    In old English law. Short pieces of land left unplowed at the ends of fields, where the plow was turned about, (otherwise called "headlands,") as sidelings were similar unplowed pieces on tbe sides. Burrill. Also a place where bowmen meet to shoot at a mark.
  • BUTTS AND BOUNDS
    A phrase used in conveyancing, to describe the end lines or circumscribing lines of a certain piece of land. The phrase "metes and bounds" has the same meaning.
  • BUTTY
    A local term in the north of England, for the associate or deputy of another ; also of things used in common.
  • BUY
    To acquire the ownership of property by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor; or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase. Webster. -Buy in. To purchase, at public sale, property which is one's own or which one has caused More...
  • BY
    This word, when descriptively used in a grant does not mean "in immediate contact with," but "near" to, the object to which it relates; and "near" is a relative term, meaning, when used in land patents, very unequal and different distances. Wells v. Mfg. Co., 48 N. H. 491. A More...
  • BY-BIDDING
    See BID.
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