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Bar Council

upon it the duty of dealing with all matters affecting the profession. Although established neither by charter nor statute, its existence is officially recognised-e.g., Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, s. 18 (2).

Barr-fee

payable by every prisoner acquitted of felony to the sheriff or gaoler, Termes de la Ley. (Abolished by Statute 130 years ago.)

Bastard

law of England to the canon law in this respect was rejected by Parliament in 1235. See MERTON, STATUTE OF. The law of England remained thus for nearly 700 years, until the Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 &

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Bastardy-bonds

the (English) Poor Law Amendment Act,1834 (4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 76), s. 70. [(English) Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1874.]

Battery

application of force to another, resulting in harmful or offensive contract. It is a misdemeanor under most modern statute, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 146. Means the crime or tort of intentionally or recklessly causing offensive

Bearers

of assize had power to inquire into their actions, etc.-4 Edw. 3, c. 11, repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 59).

Wrong

estate gained by wrong is always a fee simple. A squatter may, of course, be ejected before the Statute of Limitations has run in his favour, but as long as he remains he has seisin of the

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