Legal terms, Phrases and Maxims are usually precise shorter words or sentences which can provide larger meanings. Some of the words mentioned in different places denotes entirely different meanings.
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• Bailee - A person who receives personal property from another as a bailment.
• Bailiff - A court officer who maintains order during court proceedings.
• Bailment - When goods are left by one person with another to hold in accordance with instructions. For example, leaving luggage at railway luggage office.
• Bailment - When good are left by one person with another as a bailment.
• Bailiff - A court officer who maintains order during court proceedings.
• Bailment - When goods are left by one person with another to hold in accordance with instructions. Fr example, leaving luggage at railway luggage office.
• Barratry - Vexacious incitement to litigation, especially by soliciting potential legal client.
• Barrister - in England, a lawyer who is admitted to plead at the Bar and who may argue case in superior courts.
• Battery - Crime of actual or intended use of physical force on a person.
• Bear - one who sells stocks or shares "short,"ie. Without possessing what he sells, but intending to buy in later when the price has fallen and make a profit of the difference.
• Below - In a lower court.
• Bench - Another name for Judge (s) sitting in the Court or the Court considered in its official capacity, Judges collectively.
• Beneficiary - A person who receives something under a Will, or for whose benefit a property is held in trust.
• Bequeath - To dispose of personal property by will.
• Bequest - Act of giving personal property by will.
• Bestiality - It is an act of having intercourse with an animal. It is prohibited and punishable.
• Bias - Inclination; prejudice.
• Bicameral - Having two legislative houses.
• Bottomry - A contract by which a ship-owner pledges the ship as security for a loan to fence a voyage.
• Bound - A limitation or restriction on actin.
• Boycott- An action designed to achieve the social or economic isolation of an adversary.
• Breach - An act of breaking the law, agreement, etc.
• Break- To violate or disobey the law.
• Breaking - Act of entering a building without permission.
• Bribe - A price, reward, gift or favour bestowed or promised with a view to pervert the judgment.
• Brief - An abbreviated statement of the pleading, proofs and affidavits in any legal proceeding, with a concise narrative
of the facts and merits of the plaintiff's case, or the defendant’s defence, for the instruction of counsel at the trial or hearing; or it is statement of a client’s case, presented by a layer before the court of law.
• Broker - A mercantile agent for the purchase and sale of goods, stocks and shares, policies of insurance, etc.
• Buggery - Act consisting of having intercourse per anus. It is prohibited by law, as an unnatural offence.
• Bull - one who buys stocks or shares not intending to take delivery but to resell at a higher price.
• Bullpen - An area in a prison where inmates are kept in close confinement.
• Burglary - Regulation made by the local authority or corporation or company or society for its members for their day to day operation. They are provided in their principle Acts.
• Bona mob ilia - Movable goods.
• Bona vacantia - Goods that do not have an owner.
• Bona fide - In good faith, honestly.
• Be die in diem - Form day to day.
• Be hors Outside - the scope of
• Be novo .-Afresh.
• Bankruptcy: The state of a person who has been adjudged by a court to be insolvent.
• Battery: The international or reckless application of physical force to another person.
• Benami: Nameless.
• Beneficiary: The act of going through a marriage ceremony with someone when one is already lawful married to someone else.