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  • BROSSUS
    Bruised, or injured with blows, wounds, or other casualty. Cowell.
  • BROTHEL
    A bawdy-house; a house of ill fame; a common habitation of prostitutes.
  • BROTHER
    One person is a brother "of the whole blood" to another, the former being a male, when both are born from the same father and mother. He is a brother "of tbe half blood" to that other (or half-brother) when the two are born to the same father by different More...
  • BROTHER-IN-LAW
    A wife's brother or a sister's husband. There is not any relationship, but only affinity, between brothers-in-law. Farmers' L. & T. Co. v. Iowa Water Co. (C. C.) 80 Fed. 469. See State v. Foster, 112 La. 533, 36 South. 554.
  • BRUARIUM
    In old English law. A heath ground; ground where heath grows. Spelman.
  • 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.
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