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Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes. Means a small ball or...

Bailment [fr. bailler, Fr., to deliver], a compendious expression to signify a contract resulting from delivery; perhaps best defined as...

Axiom, an indisputable truth. Axiom, means an established principle that is universally accepted with a given frame work of reasoning...

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axation of costs. The mode by which certain officers of the various courts allow or disallow the sums claimed by...

Bingo, includes any version of that game by whatever name called, and, in any proceedings relating to bingo duty, under...

Award [the primitive sense of ward is shown in the It. Guardare, Fr. regarder, to look. Hence, Prov. Fr. eswarder...

Bills of mortality, returns of the deaths which occur within a certain district. It was with the view of communicating...

Brawling [fr. brailler, Fr., to brawl], the offence of quarrelling, or creating a disturbance in the church or churchyard, punished...

Birth, Concealing. See Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any...

Bond [fr. binda, band, bunden, A. S., to bind], a written acknowledgement or binding of a debt under seal. See...

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