In the law of contracts, one to whom goods are bailed: the party to whom personal property is delivered under a contract of bailment. Phelps v. People, 72 N. ¥. 35V: McGee v. French, 49 S. C. 454, 27 S. E. 487; Bergman v. People, 177 111. 244, 52 N. E. 363; Com. v. Chathams, 50 Pa. 181, 88 Am. Dec. 539
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ln English law. A bag or purse. Thus there is the petty-bag-ofTice in the com-mou-law jurisdiction of the court of chau-cery, because all original writs relating to the business of the crown were formerly kept iu a little sack or bag, in parvd bagd. 1 Madd. Ch. 4
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In the law of carriers. This terra comprises such articles of per-sonal convenience or necessity as are usual-ly carried by passengers for their iiersonal use, and not merchandise or other valu-ables, although carried in the trunks of passengers, which are not designed for any such
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A term used rel-atively to the law of fraudulent convey-ances made to hinder and defraud creditors, it is defiued as a fact tending to throw sus-picion upon a transaction, and calling for au explanation. Bump. Fraud. Conv. 31; Gould v. Sanders, 69 Mich. 5, 37 N. W. 37; Bryant v. Kelton, 1 Tex. 420; Goshoru v. Snodgrass. 17 W. Va. 768; Kirkley v. Lacey, 7 Houst (Del.) 213, 30 Atl. 994; Phelps v. Samson, 113 Iowa, 145, 84 N. W. 1051
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ln old English law. one who made a practice of buying corn or vict-uals in one place, and carrying them to another to sell and make profit by them
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A rod, stafT, or wand, used In old English practice in making livery of seisin where no building stood on tbe land, (Bract. 40;) a stick or wand, by the erection of which on the land involved in a real ac-tion the defendant was summoned to put in his appearance; this was called "baeulus nuntiatoi'ius." 3 Bl. Comm. 279
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A mark or cognizance worn to show the relation of the wearer to auy per-son or thing; the token of anything; a dls-tinctlve mark of office or service
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In the language of the stock exchange, this term signifies a consideration paid for delay in the delivery of stock contracted for, when the price is lower for time than for cash. Dos Passoe, Stock-Brok. 270
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In a policy of marine insurance, the phrase “forwards aud back-wards at sea” means from port to port in the course of the voyage, and not merely from one terminus to the other and back. 1 Taunt. 475
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In English law. A term formerly used in conveyances and also in pleading; it imports a yard at the back part of or behind a house, and belonging thereto
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In Scotch law. A deed attaching a qualification or condition to the terms of a conveyance or other instrument. This deed is nsed when particular circum-stnnces render it necessary to express in a separate form the limitations or qualifications of a right. Bell. The instrument is equivalent to a declaration of trust iu Eug-lish conveyancing
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In forest law. Carrying on the back, one of the cases in which an offender against vert and venison might be arrested, as being taken with the maiuour, or manner, or found carrying a deer off on this back. Manwood; Cowell
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Sax. Bearing upon the back or about the person. Applied to a thief taken with the stolen property in his Immediate possession. Bract. 1, 3, tr. 2, c. 32. Used with handhabend, having in the hand
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In old records. Commonalty or yeomanry, in contradistinction to baronage
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The holder of the first or lowest degree conferred by a college or unversity, e. g., a bachelor of arts, bachelor of law, etc
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T.” A plea of Infancy, Interposed for the purpose of defeating an action upon a contract made while the person was a minor, is vulgarly called “pleading the baby act.” By extension, the term is applied to a plea of the statute of limitations
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In Spanish law. A congress of persons; the municipal councll of a city or town. 1 white, Coll. 416; Fried-man v. Goodwin, 9 Fed. Cas. 818
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In French law. This term signifies one to whom a rlght has been assigned, either by will, glft, sale, exchange, or the like; an asslgnee. An ayant cause differs from an helr who acquires the rlght by inheritance. 8 Toullier, n. 245. The term is used in Louisiana
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