A place set apart for the Interment of the dead; a cemetery. Appeal Tax Court v. Academy, 50 Md. 353
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The exchequer of collegiate or conventual bodies; or the place of receiv-lng, paying, and accounting by the bursars. Also stipendiary scholars, who live upon the burse, fund, or joint-stock of the college
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In Scotch law. A term used to designate the rents paid into the king’s private treasury by the burgesses or inhabitants of a borough
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In old Eng-lish criminal law, laymen, upon being ac-corded the benefit of clergy, were burned with a hot iron in the brawn of the left thumb, in order that, being thus marked, they could not again claim thelr clergy. 4 Bl. Comm. 367
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A burroch, dam, or small wear over a river, where traps are laid for the taking of fish. Cowell
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To consume with fire. The verb “to burn,” in an indictment for arson, is to be taken in its common meaning of “to con-sume with fire.” Hester v. State, 17 Ga. 130
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As used in policies of insurance, this term does not mean any fluid which will burn, but it means a recog-nized article of commerce, called by that name, and which is a different article from naphtha or kerosene. Putnam v. Insurance Co. (C. C.) 4 Fed. 764; wheeler v. Insurance C0., 6 Mo. App. 235; Mark v. Insurance Co., 24 Hun (N. Y.) 569
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Murder committed with the object of selling the cadaver for purposes of dissection, particularly and originally, by suffocating or strangling the victim
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In Scotch law. Laws made by neighbors elected by common consent in the burlaw courts. Skene
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Sepulture; the act of interring dead human bodies. See Lay v. State, 12 Ind. App. 362, 39 N. E. 768; In re Reformed, etc., Church, 7 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 476; Cemetery Ass’n v. Assessors, 37 La. Ann. 35
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The title given In Germany to the chief executive officer of a borough, town, or city; corresponding to our “mayor
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L. Lat. (Burglarious-Iy.) In old criminal pleading. A necessary word in Indictments for burglary
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In criminal law. The breaking and entering the house of another in the night-time, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felony be actual-ly committed or not. Anderson v. State, 48 Ala. 666, 17 Am. Rep. 36; Benson v. McMahon, 127 U. S. 457, 8 Sup. Ct 1240, 32 L. Ed. 234; IIunter v. State, 29 Ind. 80; State v. Petit, 32 wash. 129, 72 Pac. 1021; State v. Langford, 12 N. C. 253; State v. McCall, 4 Ala. 644, 39 Am. Dec. 314; State v. wilson, 1 N. J. Law, 439, 1 Am. Dec. 216; Com. v. Newell, 7 Mass. 245
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In Saxon law. A court of Justice held semi-annually by the bishop or lord in a burg, which the thanes were bound to attend without summons
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In pleading. A technical word which must be introduced into an Indictment for burglary at common law. Lewis v. State, 16 Conn. 34; Reed v. State, 14 Tex. App. 665
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Yearly payments to the crown of Scotland, Introduced by Malcolm III., and resembling the English fee-farm rents
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A fine imposed on the community of a town, for a breach of the peace, etc
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In English law. An inhabitant or freeman of a borough or town; a person duly and legally admitted a member of a municipal corporation. Spelman; 3 Steph. Comm. 188, 189
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A roll, required by the St. & 6 wm. IV. c. 76, to be kept In corporate towns or boroughs, of the names of burgesses entitled to certain new rights •conferred by that act
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