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Body

see CORPSE. What constitutes a body has not been judicially defined. There must have been independent life, a non-viable fetus expelled at a stage of pregnancy at which separate existence is impossible does not fall within the

Aula Regis, or Regia

this account, very burdensome to the people, and accordingly the 11th chapter of Magna Charta thus enacted:-'communia placita non sequantur curiam nostram sed teneantur in aliquo loco certo.' This 'certain place' was established in Westminster Hall, where

Bleaching and Dyeing

and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22). By Schedule VI., bleaching and dyeing works are a non-textile factory and are defined as 'any premises in which the process of bleaching, beetling, dyeing, calendering, finishing, hooking,

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Bill of sale

be made are limited to default in payment of the sum secured, bankruptcy, fraudulent removal of the goods, non-production of receipt for rent, and suffering execution (s. 7); the bill is void unless it be in a

Bill

no Bill involving finance may be introduced in the House of Lords and in practice only routine and non-controversial Legislation is initiated in the Upper House. The office of the Speaker in the Parliament of Commonwealth, Philip

Bastard

of Marriage Act, 1929 (c. 36), s. 2, to enable a single woman whose marriage is void for non-age under that Act to obtain a summons notwithstanding that the father may not have paid money for the

Barrister, or Barrastor

Mr. Yerburgh, M.P. (Solicitors' Journal, July 7, 1888), where, however, an important distinction is drawn between contentious and non-contentious business; Annual Practice; Annual Statement of the Bar Council for (1904-5) 10. By rule 20 of the Resolutions

Bankruptcy notice

summons' (see that title) under the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1869) to pay a judgment debt for any amount, non-compliance with which notice within a limited time amounts, by s. 1(1)(g) of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, to

Bailable offence

Bailable offence, means an offence which is shown as bailable in the First Schedule, or which is made bailable by any other law for the time being in force; and 'non-bailable a offence' means any other...

Attestation Clause

Attestation Clause, the sentence subscribed to a written instrument signed by the witnesses to its execution, stating that they have witnessed it. Such a clause (in very precise terms)is always appended to a will

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