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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

Boosey [or Boosy] Pasture

Boosey [or Boosy] Pasture, a pasture with a shed on or by it, by custom of the country or written agreement in the north-western counties of England frequently allowed, till May 1, or

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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

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;

Bull and boar

Bull and boar. By the custom of some places the parson was obliged to keep these animals for the use of the parishioners, in

Consuetudo regni Angli- estlex Angli-

Consuetudo regni Angli- estlex Angli-. Jenk. Cent. 119.-(The custom of the kingdom of England is the law of England.)

Cattle fair

and sellers in generally a place for sale and purchase of cattle at times or on occasions ordained custom, Municipal Committee v. State of Punjab, AIR 1969 SC 1100 (1104): (1969) 1 SCC 475. [Punjab Cattle Fairs

Censure

Censure [fr. Census, Lat.] a custom observed in certain manors in Devon and Corn wall, where all persons above the aged sixteen years are

Certificate

long been obsolete, took place in those cases in which the evidence of the person certifying was, by custom or otherwise, the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; see 3 Bl. Com. 333. As to

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