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  • BUILDING SOCIETY
    An association in which the subscriptions of the members form a capital stock or fund out of which advances may be made to members desiring them, on mortgage security.
  • BUL
    In the ancient Hebrew chronology, the eighth month of the ecclesiastical, and the second of the civil year. It has since been called "Marahcvan," and answers to our October.
  • BULK
    Unbroken packages. Merchandise which is neither counted, weighed, nor measured. Bulk is said of that which is neither counted, weighed, nor measured. A sale by the bulk is the sale of a quantity such as it is, without measuring, counting, or weighing. Civil Code La. art 3556, par. 6.
  • BULL
    In ecclesiastical law. An instrument granted by the pope of Rome, and sealed with a seal of lead, containing some decree, commandment, or other public act emanating from the pontiff. Bull, in this sense, corresponds with edict or letters patent from other governments. Cowell; 4 Bl. Comm. 110; 4 Steph. More...
  • BULLA
    A seal used by the Roman emperors, during the lower empire; and which was of four kinds,-gold, silver, wax, and lead.
  • BULLETIN
    An officially published notice or announcement concerning the progress of matters of public importance. In France, the registry of the laws. -Bulletin des lois. In France, the official sheet which publishes the laws and decrees; this publication constitutes the promulgation of the law or decree.
  • BULLION
    Gold and silver intended to be coined. The term is usually applied to a quantity of these metals ready for the mint, but as yet lying in bars, plates, lumps, or other masses; but it may also include ornaments or dishes of gold and silver, or foreign coins not current More...
  • BUM-BAILIFF
    A person employed to dun one for a debt; a bailiff employed to arrest a debtor. Probably a vulgar corruption of "bound-bailiff," (q. v.)
  • BUNDA
    In old English law. A bound, boundary, border, or limit, (terminus, limes.)
  • BUOY
    In maritime law. A piece of wood or cork, or a barrel, raft, or other thing, made secure and floating upon a stream or bay, intended as a guide and warning to mariners, by marking a spot where the water is shallow, or where there is a reef or other More...
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