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Assart, or Essart
Assach, or Assath, a custom of purgation formerly used in Wales, by which an accused party cleared or purged himself of the accusation
Attachment, Foreign
obtaining the goods or property in satisfaction of the demand. It is also called garnishment. As to the custom prevailing in the City of London, see FOREIGN ATTACHMENT and consult Brandon on For. Attach
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
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Bait and switch
Bait and switch, means a sales practice whereby a merchant advertises a low-priced product to lure customers into the store only to induce them to buy a higher priced product. Most States prohibit the bait
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,
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.
Book of account
of account. So until it is shown that such register also pertained to the pecuniary transactions involving the customers of the hotel the same cannot be treated as a book of accounts. In the second place, even
Bought and Sold Notes
Bought and Sold Notes. It is no longer the custom for brokers who have succeeded in making a contract to make any entry in their books save for
Consuetudo est altera lex
Consuetudo est altera lex. 4 Rep. 21.-(Custom is another law.)
Brehon Law
formally abolished by 40 Edw. 3, it being unanimously declared to be indeed no law, but a lewd custom crept in of later times. See 1 Bl. Com. 100; Edm. Spenser's State of Ireland, 1513, edit. Hughes;
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