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  • 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.
  • BUGGERY
    A carnal copulation against nature; and this is either by the confusion of species,that is to say, a man or a woman with a brute beast-or of sexes, as a man with a man, or man unnaturally with a woman. 3 Inst 58; 12 Coke, 86. Ausman v. Veal, 10 More...
  • BUILDING
    A structure or edifice erected by the hand of man, composed of natural materials, as stone or wood, and intended for use or convenience. Truesdell v. Gray, 13 Gray (Mass.) 311; State v. Moore, 61 Mo. 276 ; Clark v. State, 69 Wis. 203, 33 N. W. 436, 2 Am. More...
  • BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
    An organization created for the purpose of accumulating a fund by the monthly subscriptions and savings of its members to assist them in buildiug or purchasing for themselves dwellings or real estate by the loan to them of the requisite money from the funds of the association. McCauley v. Association, More...
  • BUILDING LEASE
    A lease of land for a long term of years, usually 99, at a rent called a "ground rent," the lessee covenanting to erect certain edifices thereon according to specification, and to maintain the same, etc., during the term.
  • BUILDING LIEN
    The statutory lien of a material-man or contractor for the erection of a building. Lumber Co. v. Holt, 60 Neb. 80, 82 N. W. 112, 83 Am. St. Rep. 512; June v. Doke, 35 Tex. Civ. App. 240, 80 S. W. 406.
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