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Bible

Bible. For punishment of persons (brought up, etc., as Christian) denying 'the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of divine authority,' see 9 Wm. 3, c. 32 (Ruff)....

Book worship esp of the Bible applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures...

Trespass

Trespass [fr. transgressio, Lat.], any transgression of the law, less than treason, felony, or misprision of either.An unlawful act committed against the person or property of another esp. wrongful entry on another's real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.The action of trespass lies where a trespass has been committed either to the plaintiff's person or property. A trespass is an injury committed with violence, and this violence may be either actual or implied; and the law will imply violence, though none is actually used, where the injury is of a direct and immediate kind, and committed on the person or tangible and corporeal property of the plaintiff. Of actual violence an assault and battery is an instance; of implied, a peaceable but wrongful enter upon the plaintiff's lands, Steph. Plead., 7th Edn., 11, 37, 154. As to trespass on the case, see CASE and VI ET ARMIS.Trespass, as an unlawful act committed against a person and property of another, Black's Law Dictionary (7th E...

Baraca

An international interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young men so named in allusion to the Hebrew word Berachah Meaning blessing occurring in 2 Chron xx 26 and 1 Chron xii...

bdellium

An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible Gen ii 12 and Num xi 7 variously taken to be a gum a precious stone or pearls or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia...