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BROTHER-IN-LAW, domestic relat. The brother of a wife, or the hushand of a sister. There is no relationship, in the former case, between the hushand a...

BROCAGE, contracts. The wages or commissions of a broker his occupation is also sometimes called brocage. This word is also spelled brokerage.BROKERAG...

BRIEF, eccl. law. The name of a kind of papal rescript. Briefs are writings sealed with wax, and differ in this respect from bulls, (q. v.) which are ...

BRIBE, crim. law. The gift or promise, which is accepted, of some advantage, as the inducement for some illegal act or omission; or of some illegal em...

BREVE TESTATUM, feudal law. A declaration by a superior lord to his vassal, made in the presence of the pares curias, by which he gave his consent to ...

BREAKING. Parting or dividing by force and violence a solid substance, or piercing, penetrating, or bursting through the same.2. In cases of burglary ...

BREACH OF THE PEACE. A violation of public order; the offence of disturbing the public peace. One guilty of this offence may be held to bail for his g...

BOUNTY. A sum of money or other thing, given, generally by' the government, to certain persons, for some service they have done or are about to do...

BOTELESS, or bootless. Without recompense, reward or satisfaction made unprofitable or without success.BOTTOMRY, maritime law. A contract, in nature o...

BOROUGH. An incorporated town; so called in the charter. It is less than a city. 1 Mann. & Gran. 1; 39 E. C. L. R. 323.BOROUGH ENGLISH, English la...