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  • Billeting

    Definition of Billeting The quartering of soldiers and their horses in the house of a subject. Billeting was restricted by the Army Act, 1881, to inns and victualling houses, but by the Army (Annual) Act of 1909, when the Territorial Force is embodied by Proclamation, soldiers of the Regular […]

  • Bill Of Exceptions

    Definition of Bill Of Exceptions A statement of the objections of a party to a suit to the decisions of the Judge on matters of law. The Bill was then argued before a Court of error Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Bill Of Exceptions in the […]

  • Bill Of Exchange

    Definition of Bill Of Exchange An unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a […]

  • Bill Of Health

    Definition of Bill Of Health A document given to the master of a ship by the consul of the port from which he comes, describing the sanitary state of the place. It may be a clean, suspected, or foul Bill Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Bill Of […]

  • Bill Of Indictment

    Definition of Bill Of Indictment The presentment to a grand jury, which becomes an indictment when a true bill is found Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Bill Of Indictment in the Dictionaries, Bill Of Indictment in our legal dictionaries, Related […]

  • Bill Of Lading

    Definition of Bill Of Lading A document signed and delivered by the master of a ship to the shippers on goods being shipped. It specifies the name of the master, the port and destination of the ship, the goods, the consignee, and the rate of freight. Copies are kept by the master, the shipper […]

  • Bill Of Middlesex

    Definition of Bill Of Middlesex The procedure whereby the Court of King’s Bench acquired jurisdiction in civil cases between subject and subjectThe writ was issued to the sheriff of Middlesex commanding him to arrest the defendant for an imaginary trespass (in which the Court had jurisdiction) […]

  • 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 […]