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Chose
P. Act, 1925, transfers the legal right: it should not be confused with the rule on Dearle v. Hall, 3 Rus. 1, and s. 137, which regulates the priorities of assignments without affecting the legal right. See
Champion of the King (or Queen)
whose duty (hereditary in the family of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire) it was to ride armed cap-a-pie into Westminster Hall at the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and by the proclamation of a herald, make a
Calendar
same month in order to accommodate the English chronology to the new style. 6 Rymer's F'dera, 119; 2 Hall. Lit. Hist. 56, 329; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Time.'
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Bristol bargain
bargain, where A. lends B. 1,000l. on good security, and it is agreed that 500l., together with interest, hall be paid at a time stated; and as to the other 500l., that B., in consideration there of,
Blockade
to the offending party, when captured, is the condemnation usually of both the ship and the cargo. Consult Hall's International Law. Pacific blockades, i.e., blockades of the ports of a power with whom the blockading power is
Bishop
s. 13; and as to bishops suffragan, see SUFFRAGAN. As to the position of bishops in Parliament, see Hall. Mid. Ages, ch. Viii.; Lord Selborne's Defence of the Church against Disestablishment, 5th 3d., 24-26 (45); and the
Benchers
a barrister guilty of misconduct, by either admonishing or rebuking him, by prohibiting him from dining in the hall or using the library, or even by expelling him from the Bar, called disbarring. They may also refuse
Bank
in modern times, consult Bagehot's 'Lombard Street.' As to its origin, see Macaulay's Hist. Of England, ch. Xx.; Hall. Const. Hist., ch. xv.; and for the original Charter, see Pulling's Statutory Rules and Orders, vol. I., tit.
Yeomen of the guard
picked body of men, attached to the Lord Chamberlain's office, Buckingham Palace. As to their establishment, see 2 Hall. Const Hist., c. 9.
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