BOTING, CORN. Certain rent corn, anciently so called. Cowell
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A charge on logs for the use of a boom in collecting, storing, or raft-ing them. Lumber Co. v. Thompson, 83 Miss. 499, 35 South. 82a A rlght of entry on riparian lands for the purpose of fastening booms and boom sticks. Farraud v. Clarke. 63 Mlnn. 181, 65 N. W. 361
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In English law. Certaln days in the year (sometimes called “due days”) on which tenants in copyhold were obliged to perform corporal services for the lord, whishaw
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An inclosure formed upon the surface of a stream or other body of water, by means of piers and a chain of spars, for the purpose of collecting or storing logs or timber. Powers’ Appeal, 125 Pa. 175, 17 Atl. 254, 11 Am. St. Rep. 882; Lumber Co. v. Green, 76 Mich. 320, 43 N. W. 576; Gas-per v. Heimbach, 59 Minn. 102, 60 N. W. 1060; Boom Corp. v. whiting, 29 Me. 123
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A company formed for the purpose of improving streams for the floating of logs, hy means of booms and other contrivances, and for the purpose of running, driving, booming, and rafting logs
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A gratuity. A premium paid to a grantor or vendor
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1. A general designation applied to any literary composition which is print-ed, but appropriately to a printed composi-tlon hound in a volume. Scoville v. Toland, 21 Fed. Cas. 864
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In Roman law. A species of equitable title to things, os distinguished from a title acqnir-ed according to the strict forms of the municipal law; the property of a Roman citizen in a subject capable of quirltary prop-erty, acquired hy a title not known to the civil law, but introduced by the praetor, and protected by his impcrium or supreme executive power, e. g., where res mancipi had been transferred by mere tradition. Poste’s Gnius Inst. 187. See Quiritabian owneb-snip
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A special writ of jail delivery, which formerly Issued of course for each particular prisoner. 4 BL Comm. 270
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A writ ad-dressed to the sheriff, when a writ of error has been brought, commanding that the person against whom judgment has been ob-tained be not suffered to remove his goods till the error be tried and determined. Reg. orig. 131
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The remission of a tax, particularly on goods intended for ex-port, being a special advantage extended by government in aid of trade and manufactures. and having the same effect as a bonus or drawback. It is a device resorted to for enabling a commodity affected by taxes to
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In old European law. Good men; a name given in early European jurisprudence to the tenants of the lord, who judged each other in the lord's courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 349
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In the clvil law. To make a transfer or surrender of property, as a debtor did to his creditors. Cod. 7, 71
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A surety; one who has entered Into a bond as surety. The word seems to apply especially to the sureties upon the bonds of officers, trustees, etc., while bail should be reserved for the sureties on recognizances and bail-bonds. Haberstlch V. Elliott, 180 IU. 70, 59 N. E. 557
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L. Fr. In old English law. Good men, (of the jury
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In the civil law. of good faith; in good faith. This is a more frequent form than bona fide
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Slavery; Involuntary per-sonal servitude; captivity. In old English law, vlllenage, villein tenure. 2 Bl. Comm. 92
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Lat adj. Good. Used in nnmer-ous legal phrases of which the following are the principal
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In or with good faith; honestly, openly, and sincerely; without de-ceit or fraud
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Regula-tlons passed for the presidency of Bombay, and the territories subordinate thereto. They were passed by the governors in council of Bombay until the year 1834, when the power of local legislation ceased, and the acts re-la ting thereto were thenceforth passed by the governor general of India in council. Moz-ley & w’hitley
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The desertion by oue or more persons from the political party to which he or they belong; the permanent withdrawal before adjournment of a portion of the dele-gates to a political convention. Rap. & L
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In English practice. A term formerly used in the English inns of court, but more particularly at Gray’s Inn, signify-ing the private arguing of cases, as distln-guished from mooting, which was a more formal and public mode of argument. Cow-ell; Tomlins; Holthouse
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or BOLDAGIUM. A little house or cottage. Blount
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A term applied to a corporation, which is usually designated as a “body corporate and politic.”
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