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Authorities

Authorities, the citations which are made of laws, acts of the legislature, precedents, decided cases, and opinions of text writers. See PRECEDENT.

Away-going, or Way-going crops

custom or usage has been held to be reasonable and valid, see Wigglesworth v. Dallison, 1 Sm LC, decided by Lord Mansfield in 1799, and to apply to tenants by parol agreement as well as by deed

Bad faith

introduced into a criminal trial because it might confuse to jury and deflect them from their task of deciding whether the public office had been abused by the conduct of office holder, although there might be cases

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Battel, wager of

criminal cases, and in the obsolete real action called a writ of action. The question at issue was decided by the result of a personal combat between the parties, or, in the case of a writ of

Bench trial

Bench trial, means a trial in which there is no jury and the judge decides the case, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn., (2005), p. 47.

Berghmoth, or Berghmote

Sax., a hill, and gemote, an assembly], an assembly or Court upon a hill, held in Derbyshire, for deciding pleas and controversies among the miners, Squire on Anglo-Saxon Government.

Betting

any street or public place, or in any place to which the public have access [including, as was decided in Langrishe v. Archer, (1882) 10 QBD 44, a railway carriage on its journey], is declared to be

Bonus judex secundum equum et bonum judicat, et equitatem stricto juri prefert

Bonus judex secundum equum et bonum judicat, et equitatem stricto juri prefert [Lat.], A good judge decides according to justice and right, and prefers equity to strict law.

Prejudical

Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided as a prejudical inquiry or action at law

Paroxysm

The fit attack or exacerbation of a disease that occurs at intervals or has decided remissions or intermissions

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