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Company
Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons associated for purposes of busi-ness, sometimes, but not now so frequently as some years ago, styled...
Manufacture
Manufacture, implies a change but every change is not manufacture. But something more is necessary and there must be transformation, a new and different article must emerge having a distinctive name, character or use, Hindustan Poles...
Bail
Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken for his appearance on a day and at a place certain, which security is called bail,...
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Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights, a declaration delivered by the Lords and Commons to the Prince and Princess of Orange, and afterwards enacted in Parliament, when they became King and Queen, as 1 W. & M., sess. 2,...
King's Bench
King's Bench. The Court of King's or Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the style of the Court still being coram ipso...
Necessaries
Necessaries, a relative term, not strictly limited to such things as are absolutely requisite for support and subsistence, but to be construed liberally, and varying with the state and degree, the rank, fortune, and age of...
Hire-purchase system
Hire-purchase system. A system whereby the owner of goods lets them on hire for periodic payments by the hirer upon an agreement that when a certain number of payments have been completed, the absolute property in...
Bastard
Bastard [fornication], one born not of lawful marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if...
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