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Black Guerrilla Family
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Black Guerrilla FamilyIn the US penitentiary slang, an African-American prison gang that originted as a revolutionary organization.
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Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
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Black book of the admiralty
An ancient book compiled in the reign of Edw. III. At large, a view of the crimes and offences cognizable in the admiralty; ordinances and commentaries on matters of prize and maritime torts, injuries and contracts
Black book of the exchequer
The name of a book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties) conventions, charters.
Black farmer lawsuit
A lawsuit by means of which a black farmer or a group of black farmers seek justice.
Black mail
When rents were reserved payable in work, grain, and the like, they were called reditus nigri, or black mail, to distinguish them from white rents or blanch farms, or such as were paid in money.
Black-mail
French maille, a small coin. Rent reserved in work, grain, or the baser money. Opposed, white rent: rent paid in silver. In common parlance, extortion - the exaction of money for the performance of a duty, the prevention of an injury, or the exercise of an influence.
Blacke booke of the admiralty
The name given by Sir Travers Twiss to the first volume of his four-volume collection, containing a variety of medieval maritime law materials, probably first compiled in the mid-fifteenth century during the reign of King Henry VI. In particular, the Blacke Booke of the Admiralty contains a version of the Rôles of Oleron.
Blacking
A practice used by certain seafarers' trades union against flag-of-convenience shipowners to compel them, by measures causing economic duress.
Blackstone, Sir William
Born July 10, 1723. In 1765 appeared the first volume of his commentaries. The other three volumes were published during the next four years. He died February 14, 1780. American lawyers, with few exceptions, since the Revolution, have drawn their first lessons in jurisprudence from Blackstone's Commentaries.
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Becoming a lawyer
Procedures to be admitted to the bar and practice law in a given jurisdiction.
Brain injury lawyer
A lawyer who has specialized in cases of brain injury.
Bam-bam
In the US penitentiary slang, the mental health ward or a prisoner who is a mental health patient.
Banger
In the US penitentiary slang, a knife. Also called a burner or a shank.
Bean chute
In the US penitentiary slang, the slot through which food trays are inserted.
Black Guerrilla Family
Big jab
In the US penitentiary slang, a lethal injection.
Billies
In the US penitentiary slang, white men.
Bing
In the US penitentiary slang, the segregation unit.
Blanket party
In the US penitentiary slang, throwing a blanket over a despised prisoner, so he or she can't identify an attacker.
Bonaroo
In the US penitentiary slang, one's best clothes.
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Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Black book of the admiralty
An ancient book compiled in the reign of Edw. III. At large, a view of the crimes and offences cognizable in the admiralty; ordinances and commentaries on matters of prize and maritime torts, injuries and contracts
Black book of the exchequer
The name of a book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties) conventions, charters.
Black farmer lawsuit
A lawsuit by means of which a black farmer or a group of black farmers seek justice.
Black mail
When rents were reserved payable in work, grain, and the like, they were called reditus nigri, or black mail, to distinguish them from white rents or blanch farms, or such as were paid in money.
Black-mail
French maille, a small coin. Rent reserved in work, grain, or the baser money. Opposed, white rent: rent paid in silver. In common parlance, extortion - the exaction of money for the performance of a duty, the prevention of an injury, or the exercise of an influence.
Blacke booke of the admiralty
The name given by Sir Travers Twiss to the first volume of his four-volume collection, containing a variety of medieval maritime law materials, probably first compiled in the mid-fifteenth century during the reign of King Henry VI. In particular, the Blacke Booke of the Admiralty contains a version of the Rôles of Oleron.
Blacking
A practice used by certain seafarers' trades union against flag-of-convenience shipowners to compel them, by measures causing economic duress.
Blackstone, Sir William
Born July 10, 1723. In 1765 appeared the first volume of his commentaries. The other three volumes were published during the next four years. He died February 14, 1780. American lawyers, with few exceptions, since the Revolution, have drawn their first lessons in jurisprudence from Blackstone's Commentaries.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Becoming a lawyer
Procedures to be admitted to the bar and practice law in a given jurisdiction.
Brain injury lawyer
A lawyer who has specialized in cases of brain injury.
Bam-bam
In the US penitentiary slang, the mental health ward or a prisoner who is a mental health patient.
Banger
In the US penitentiary slang, a knife. Also called a burner or a shank.
Bean chute
In the US penitentiary slang, the slot through which food trays are inserted.
Black Guerrilla Family
Big jab
In the US penitentiary slang, a lethal injection.
Billies
In the US penitentiary slang, white men.
Bing
In the US penitentiary slang, the segregation unit.
Blanket party
In the US penitentiary slang, throwing a blanket over a despised prisoner, so he or she can't identify an attacker.
Bonaroo
In the US penitentiary slang, one's best clothes.
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