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Butcher
Butcher, a person who carries on the trade of killing animals, or of selling the flesh of such animals, for human consumption. No license is required, neither are
Burkism
Burkism (from the name of its first perpetrator, who was executed at Edinburgh in January,1829), the practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection. See preamble of the (English) Anatomy Act, 1833
Backberinde, Backverinde, or Backberend
greyhound, ready to shoot or course; backberend, i.e., carrying away upon his back the deer which he had killed; bloody-handed (red handed), i.e., when he had shot or coursed, and was imbrued with blood, 4 Inst. 294.
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Aventur', or Adventure
or Adventure, a mischance causing the death of a man, as where a person is suddenly drowned or killed by any accident, without felony, Jac. Law Dict.
Lowbote
Lowbote, a recompense for the death of a man killed in a tumult.
Accident occasioned by negligence
injuries in such cases, see NEGLIGENCE. As to the rights of wife, husband, parent or child of person killed in such an accident, see CAMPBELL'S (LORD) ACT. Any adopted or illegitimate person is included in the expression
Local taxation licences
Act, 1908, power is given to levy the duties on certain of these licences, namely, dealing in game, killing game, guns, dogs, armorial bearings, and (formerly) male servants
Strokehaul
Strokehaul, a device for catching fish, the use of which is prohibited for taking or killing salmon, trout, or freshwater fish. (Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923, s. 1)
Manbote
Manbote, a compensation or recompense for homicide, particularly due to the lord for killing his man or vassal, the amount of which was regulated by that of wer, Anc. Ins. Eng.
Rate
of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or rabbits, and of fishing when severed from the occupation of the land; and (3) mines of
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