Category: B

  • Burial

    Definition of Burial At common law, every person may be buried in the churchyard of the parish where he dies, unless he was within certain ecclesiastical prohibitions (e.g. y not having been baptised), and provided that the rites of the Church of England are observed. See the Burial Acts, 1852 […]

  • Buron V. Denman

    Definition of Buron V. Denman ((1848), 2 Ex. 167). If a servant of the Crown commits a wrongful act against an alien, and the Crown authorised such act, or subsequently ratifies it, it is an act of State and no action will lie in respect of it against such servantThe defendant, a British naval […]

  • Bushell's Case

    Definition of Bushell’s Case ((1670), Vaughan, 135). The jury had acquitted William Penn and another of a charge of preaching in a London Street, and had been fined by the Recorder forty marks each in consequence, and in default committed. A habeas corpus was moved for’.Held, that finding […]

  • Business Names

    Definition of Business Names See Registration of Business Names Act, 1916 Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Business Names in the Dictionaries, Business Names in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia […]

  • Butterfield V. Forrester

    Definition of Butterfield V. Forrester ((1809), 11 East, 60). A person is not entitled to say that he is injured by the negligence of another if he niight by ordinary care have escaped the dangerThe defendant for the- purpose- of making some repairs to his house, put a pole across part of the […]

  • Bye-laws

    Definition of Bye-laws Rules made by some authority (subordinate to the Legislature) for the regulation, administration or management of a certain district, property, undertaking, etc., and binding on all persons who come within their scope. Thus every Act of Parliament incorporating a railway […]

  • Byrne V. Boadle

    Definition of Byrne V. Boadle ((1863), 2 H. & C. 722). Ees ipsa loquitur. The plaintiff was walking along a street in Liverpool when a barrel of flour fell from the defendant’s premises and injured him. Held, that the falling was prima facie evidence of negligence Browse You might be […]

  • Byrne V. Van Tienhoven

    Definition of Byrne V. Van Tienhoven ((1880), L. R. 5 C. P. D. 344). A revocation or withdrawal of an offer is of no effect until it is communicated to the offeree, i. e., until it is actually received by him. Therefore an acceptance of an offer, made between the posting and receipt of a…

  • Bywell Castle, The

    Definition of Bywell Castle, The ((1879), 4 P. D. 219). A ship, by faulty navigation, placed another ship in such a position that a collision was inevitable unless the utmost skill was shown, which in fact was not. Held, the owner of the latter ship was entitled to damages C.I.F. Cost, […]

  • Burdett V. Abbott

    Definition of Burdett V. Abbott ((1811), 14 East, 1). This was an action of trespass against the Speaker of the House of Commons for breaking into the plaintiff’s house and carrying him to the Tower for a breach of privilege of the House of Commons. Held, either House of Parliament has power […]