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Bingo

version of that game by whatever name called, and, in any proceedings relating to bingo duty, under the Customs and Excise Management Act, 1979 (UK) or any other Act relating to excise, an averment in any process

Bill of sufferance

license granted to a merchant, to suffer him to trade from one English port to another, without paying custom. See Blount's Law Dict., 14 Car. 2, c. 11, s. 7.

Bill of store

Bill of store, in the Customs, is a certified extract from the official records that certain imported goods, which would otherwise be liable to

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Bill of sight

together with charges of moving and warehouse rent, such goods shall be sold to pay the duties, (English) Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36), ss. 58 et seq.

Bill of export

Bill of export, means a bill of export referred to in s. 50. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (5)]

Beer

holder or occupier. The purity of beer is specially safeguarded by the Inland Revenue Act, 1880, and the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1885, s. 8. See also INTOXICATING LIQUORS; ADULTERATION.

Bankers' cash notes

cash notes, formerly called goldsmiths' notes, because bankers were originally goldsmiths. Written promises given by bankers to their customers as acknowledgments of having received money for their use, payable to bearer on demand and considered as money,

Bailment

of the bailor. A restaurant keeper has been held liable for loss of an overcoat entrusted by a customer to a waiter, Ultzen v. Nicols, (1894) 1 QB 92; Orchard v. Bush & Co., (1898) 2 QB

Arbitration

found their power in the compromise of the parties; the former being obliged to judge according to the customs of the law: whereas the latter is at liberty to use his own discretion, and accommodate the difference

Baggage

Baggage, includes unaccompanied baggage but does not include motor vehicles. [The Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (3)]

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