Booting Or Boting Corn - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: booting or boting cornBooting, or Boting corn
Booting, or Boting corn [fr. boteor boot, Sax., compensation], rent corn, anciently so called....
Bote
Bote [fr. bot, A.S.; beton, to repair, synonymous with estovers, Fr.; esroffer, to furnish], necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. The owner of an estate for life or for years is entitled, even if he is impeachable for waste and unless expressly restrained by the terms of the conveyance, settlement, or devise, to reasonable estovers or botes, i.e., necessary wood, such as house-bote, plough-bote, cart-bote, and hay-bote or hedge-bote. House-bote is a sufficient allowance of wood from off the estate to repair or burn in the house, and sometimes termed fire-bote; plough-bote and cart-bote are wood to be employed in making and repairing all instruments of husbandry; and hay-bote or hedge-bote is wood for repairing of hays, hedges, or fences. The word also signifies reparation for any damage or injury done, as man-bote, which was a compensation or amends for a man slain, etc., 2 Bl. Com. 35; Jac. Law Dict.A compensation or profit; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
boot
boot [obsolete or dialect boot compensation, from Old English bōt advantage, compensation] : additional money or property received to make up the difference in an exchange of business or investment property that is of like kind but unequal in value NOTE: Under Internal Revenue Code section 1031, no tax liability results from an exchange solely of like-kind property used in a business or trade or held for investment. If the exchange includes boot, however, under section 1245 the boot will be treated as ordinary income. ...
Booted
Wearing boots especially boots with long tops as for riding as a booted squire...
Carte-bote
Carte-bote. See BOTE....
Dolg-bote
Dolg-bote [fr. dolg, Sax., wound, and bote, recompense], a recompense for a scar or wound, Cowel....
Hay-bote
Hay-bote, a liberty to take thorns and other wood to make and repair hedges, gates, fences, etc., either by tenant for life or years; also wood for making of rakes and forks. See BOTE....
Hedge-bote
Hedge-bote, materials to make hedges, which a lessee for years, etc., may of common right take from the land leased.-see BOTE....
Half boot
A boot with a short top covering only the ankle See Cocker and Congress boot under Congress...
Corn Returns
Corn Returns. By the (English) Corn Returns Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 37), consolidating with amendments 5 & 6 Vict. c. 14, and 27 & 28 Vict. c. 87, certain towns as named by Order in Council from time to time and being not less that 150 nor more than 200 in number, supply through 'inspectors of corn returns' weekly returns of the purchases of British corn made in such towns. The inspectors make up these returns from the dealers and corn factors, etc., who are bound by s.11 of the Act to supply particulars under a penalty not exceeding 20l. Average are computed by the Board of Trade from the weekly returns, and published in the London Gazette. The (English) Corn Sales Act, 1921, ss. 2, 4, makes a minor amendment to the Act of 1882....
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