Tag: BI
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Bishop, Suffragan
Definition of Bishop, Suffragan An assistant to or deputy for a bishop Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Bishop, Suffragan in the Dictionaries, Bishop, Suffragan in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]
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Bills In Eyre
Definition of Bills In Eyre Processes by which civil proceedings were instituted before the Eyre (q.v.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Bills In Eyre in the Dictionaries, Bills In Eyre in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from […]
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Bird V. Hoi Brook
Definition of Bird V. Hoi Brook ((1828), 4 Bing. 640). Held, that a person who sets spring guns on his premises and gives no notice that they are there, is liable even to trespassers injured thereby Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Bird V. Hoi […]
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Bird 'v. Jones
Definition of Bird ‘v. Jones ((1845), 7 Q. B. 742). Any restraint of a person without reasonable cause is a false imprisonment, so long as he is thereby prevented from going in all directions, and not merely in one or more particular directionsPart of the public footway on Hammersmith Bridge […]
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Birkmyr v. Darnell
Definition of Birkmyr V. Darnell ((1704), 1 Salkeld, 27). The defendant promised the plaintiff that in consideration of the plaintiff lending a horse to one, English, he, the defendant, would undertake that English would re-deliver the horse. It was held this was a guarantee within the […]
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Birretum
Definition of Birretum The black cap or coif of the Judges and sergeants at law Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Birretum in the Dictionaries, Birretum in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, […]
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Bishop
Definition of Bishop An ecclesiastical dignitary ; the chief of the clergy within his diocese Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Bishop in the Dictionaries, Bishop in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]
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Bill Of Pains And Penalties
Definition of Bill Of Pains And Penalties A Bill introduced, generally in the House of Lords but sometimes in the House of Commons, for the punishment of a particular person without trial in the ordinary way. Such person could defend himself by counsel and witnessesThe last Bill of Pains and […]
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Bill Of Particulars
Definition of Bill Of Particulars A statement in writing of what a plaintiff sought to recover in an action Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Bill Of Particulars in the Dictionaries, Bill Of Particulars in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, […]
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Bill Of Peace
Definition of Bill Of Peace A Bill which could be filed in Chancery to restrain vexatious or unnecessary litigation by perpetual injunction Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Bill Of Peace in the Dictionaries, Bill Of Peace in our legal dictionaries, […]