In ecclesiastical law. The diocese of a bishop, or the circuit in which he has jurisdiction; the office of a bishop. 1 Bl. Comm. 377-382
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In English law. An ecclesiastical court, held in the cathedral of each diocese, tlie judge whereof is the bishop’s chancellor, who judges by the civil canon law; and, if the diocese he large, he has his commissaries in remote parts, who hold consistory courts, for matters limited to them by their commission
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In old English law. A fine lmposed for not repairing banks, ditches, and causeways
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In Engllsh law. An ecclesiastical dignitary, being the chief of the clergy within his diocese, subject to the archbishop of the province in which his diocese is situated. Most of tlie bishops are also members of the House of Lords
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An ancient coin, first issued at Coustantino-ple; it was of two sorts,—gold, equivalent to a ducat, valued at 9s. 6d.; and silver, com-puted at 2s. They were both current In Englaud. wharton.
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The act of heing born or wholly brought iuto separate existence, wallace v. State, 10 Tex. App. 270
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The act .by which a court or magistrate requires a person to enter Into a recognizance or furnish bail to appear for trial, to keep the peace, to attend as a witness, etc
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Consisting of, or divisible into, two parts. A term iu conveyancing de-scriptive of nn instrument in two parts, and executed by both parties
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To obligate; to bring or place under definite duties or legal obligations, particularly by a bond or covenant; to affect one in a constraining or compulsory manner with a contract or a judgment. Ro long as a contract, an adjudication, or a legal rela-tion remains in force and virtue, and continues to impose duties or obligations, it is sa id to be “binding." A man is bound by his contract or promise, by a judgment or decree against him, by his bond or covenant, by an estoppel, etc. Stone v. Bradbury, 14 Me. 193; Holmes v. Tutton, 5 El. & Bl. 80; Bank v. Ireland, 127 N. C. 238, 37 S. E. 223; Doug-las v. Hennessy, 15 R. I. 272, 10 Atl. 583
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To place oue under a legal obligation to serve another; as to bind out an apprentice
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Pertaining to. or con-slsting of, two metals used as money at a fixed relative value
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The legalized use of two metals iu the currency of a country at a fixed relative value
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A soldier's quarters in a civilian’s house; or the ticket which authorizes hini to occupy them
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In old English law. A bill or petition exhibited in parliament. Cowell
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ook. In mercantile law. A book in which an account of bilis of exchange and prom-issory notes, whether payable or receivable, is stated.—Bill-bead. A printed form on which merchants and traders make out thelr bills and render accounts to their customers.—Bill of lading. In common law. The written evidence of a contract for the carriage and delivery of goods sent by sea for a certain freight. Mason v. Lick barrow, 1 H. BI. 350. A written memorandum, given by the person in command of a merchant vessel, acknowledging the receipt on board the ship of certain specified goods, in good order or “apparent good order," which he undertakes, in consideration of the payment of freight, to deliver in like good order (dangers of tbe sea excepted) at a designated place to tbe consignee therein named or to his assigns. De-vato v. Barrels (D. C.) 20 Fed. 510; Gage v. Jaqueth. 1 Lans. (N. Y.) 210; The Delaware, 14 wall. 600, 20 L. Ed. 779. The term is often applied to a similar receipt and undertaking given by a carrier of goods by land. A bill of lading is an instrument in writing, signed by a carrier or his agent, describing the freight so as to identify it, stating the name of the con-signor, the terms of the contract for carriage, and agreeing or directing that the freight be delivered to the order or assigns of a specified person at a specified place. Civil Code Cal. $ 2126; Civil Code Dak. | 1229.—BUI of par-eels. A statement sent to the buyer of goods, along with the goods, exhibiting in detail tbe items composing the parcel and their several prices, to enable him to detect any mistake or omission; an invoice.—Bill of sale. In con-tracts. A written agreement under seal, by which one person assigns or transfers his right to or interest in goods and personal chattels to.another. An instrument by which, in par-ticular, the property in ships and vessels is conveyed. Putnam v. McDonald. 72 Vt. 4. 47 Atl. 159; Young v. Stone. 61 App. Div. 364, 70 N. Y. Supp. 558.—BUI parable. In a merchant’s accounts, all bills which he has ac-cepted, and promissory notes which he has made, are called “bills payable," and are entered in a ledger account under that name, and recorded in a book bearing the same title.—Bill reoeiv-ablo. In a merchant’s accounts, all notes, drafts, checks, etc., payable to him, or of which he is to receive the proceeds at a future date, are called “bills receivable." and are entered in a ledger-account under that name, and also noted in a book bearing the same title. State v. Robinson, 57 M
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A formal declaration, complaint, or statement of particular things in writing. Ab a legal term, this word has many mean-ings and applications, the more lmportant of which are enumerated below
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rights. A formal and emphatic leg-islative assertion and declaration of popular rights and liberties usually promulgated upon a change of government; particularly the stat-ute 1 W. A M. St. 2, c. 2. Also the summary of the rights and liberties of the people, or of the principles of constitutional law deemed es-sential and fundamental, contained in many of the American state constitutions.—Eason v. State, 11 Ark. 491; Atchison St. R. Co. v. Mis-souri Pac. R. Co.. 31 Kan. 661, 3 Pac. 284; orr v. Quimby, 54 N. H. 613
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A word used by Britton in the sense of “collateral.” En line biline, in the collateral line. Britt c. 119
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of a double language or tongue; that can speak two languages. A term applied in the old books to a jury corn-posed partly of Englishmen and partly of foreigners, which, by the English law, an alien party to a suit is, in certain cases, en-titled to; more commonly called a “jury de mcdietote lingu#." 3 Bl. Comm. 360 ; 4 Steph. Comm. 422
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A term, used originally in the civil law, but now generally adopted, denoting a contract in which both the contracting parties are bound to fulfill obligations reciprocally towards each other; as a contract of sale, where one be-comes bound to deliver the thing sold, and the other to pay the price of it Montpelier Seminary v. Smith, 69 Vt 382, 38 Atl. 66
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In admiralty law and marine insurance. That state or condition of a vessel in which water is freely admitted through holes and breaches made in the planks of the bottom, occasioned by Injuries, whether the ship's timbers are broken or not. Peele v. Insurance Co., 3 Mason, 27, 39, 19 Fed. Cos. 103
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