Bas Chevaliers - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bas chevaliersBas-Chevaliers
Bas-Chevaliers, low or inferior knights by tenure of a base military fee, as distinguished from bannerets, chief or superior knights. Hence we call our simple knights, viz., knights bachelors, bas-chevaliers, Ken. Par. Antiq...
Knights bachelors
Knights bachelors [fr. bas chevalier, Fr.], the most ancient though lowest order of knighthood, formerly entitled to a pennon in battle. See BAS-CHEVALIERS; KNIGHT....
Bas-ville
Bas-ville, suburbs of a town, Fr....
probation
probation [Middle French, critical examination and evaluation, from Latin probation- probatio, from probare to test, approve, prove] 1 a : subjection to a period of evaluation and possible termination at the commencement of employment in a position for which one's fitness is to be determined b : subjection to a period of review in the course of employment or education as a result of a violation of standards and with the possibility of dismissal if standards are not met 2 a : the suspension of all or part of a sentence and its replacement by freedom subject to specific conditions and the supervision of a probation officer [it is the intent of the legislature that the granting of shall be a matter of grace conferring no vested right to its continuance "Michigan Statutes Annotated"] compare diversion, parole b : probation as a sentence in itself c : the period or state of being subject to probation [arrested while on ] pro·ba·tion·al [-shə-nəl] adj pro...
bastard
bastard : an illegitimate child NOTE: The word bastard is no longer used in legal contexts. bas·tardy [bas-tər-dē] n ...
Bantu
A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa These tribes include as important divisions the Kafirs Damaras Bechuanas and many tribes whose names begin with Aba Ama Ba Ma Wa variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba as in Ba ntu or Aba ntu itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable ntu a person or as in Watusi...
Boa
A genus of large American serpents including the boa constrictor the emperor boa of Mexico Boa imperator and the chevalier boa of Peru Boa eques...
Chevalier
A horseman a knight a gallant young man...
bank
bank : an organization for the custody, loan, or exchange of money, for the extension of credit, and for facilitating the transmission of funds branch bank : a banking facility that is a separate but dependent part of a chartered bank ;esp : a facility that performs some banking functions and is separate from a main office bridge bank : a national bank that is chartered for a limited time to operate an insolvent bank until it is sold central bank : a national bank that establishes monetary and fiscal policy and controls the money supply and interest rate collecting bank : a bank other than the payor bank that is handling for collection a negotiable instrument or a promise or order to pay money commercial bank : a bank organized chiefly to handle the everyday financial transactions of businesses (as through deposit accounts and commercial loans) cooperative bank : an association (as a credit union) owned by and offering banking services for its members ;specif : savings and ...
basis
basis pl: ba·ses [-sēz] 1 : something (as a principle or reason) on which something else is established [the court could not imagine any conceivable for the statute] see also rational basis 2 : a basic principle or method ;esp : the principle or method by which taxable income is calculated NOTE: The Internal Revenue Code has set some limits on which method a taxpayer may use for figuring taxable income. For example, a corporation with gross receipts under $5,000,000 may be a cash-basis taxpayer. ac·cru·al basis : a method of accounting in which income and expenses are recorded in the period when they are earned or incurred regardless of when the payment is received or made called also accrual method cash basis : a method of accounting in which income and expenses are recorded in the period when payment is received or made called also cash method 3 : the value (as cost or fair market value) of an asset used in calculating capital gains or losses for inc...
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