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Black book of the admiralty
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Black book of the admiraltyAn 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
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Book
A general name given to every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately to a printed composition bound in a volume.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
View
A prospect.
Prize
1) Maritime law, war. The apprehension and detention at sea, of a ship or other vessel, by authority of a belligerent power, either with the design of appropriating it, with the goods and effects it contains, or with that of becoming master of the whole or a part of its cargo. 2) Contracts. A reward which is offered to one of several persons who shall accomplish a certain condition; as, if an editor should offer a silver cup to the individual who shall write the best essay in favor of peace.
Maritime
That which belongs to or is connected with the sea.
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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 Guerrilla Family
In the US penitentiary slang, an African-American prison gang that originted as a revolutionary organization.
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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Birretum or birretus
A cap or coif used formerly in England, by judges and sergeants at law.
Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Bisaile
Domestic relations. A corruption of the French word besaieul, the father of the grandfather or grandmother.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
Bishoprick
Ecclesiastical law. The extent of country over which a bishop has jurisdiction a see; a diocese.
Black book of the admiralty
Black book of the exchequer
The name of a book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties) conventions, charters.
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.
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.
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.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Book
A general name given to every literary composition which is printed; but appropriately to a printed composition bound in a volume.
Large
Broad; extensive; unconfined. The opposite of strict, narrow, or confined. At large, at liberty
View
A prospect.
Prize
1) Maritime law, war. The apprehension and detention at sea, of a ship or other vessel, by authority of a belligerent power, either with the design of appropriating it, with the goods and effects it contains, or with that of becoming master of the whole or a part of its cargo. 2) Contracts. A reward which is offered to one of several persons who shall accomplish a certain condition; as, if an editor should offer a silver cup to the individual who shall write the best essay in favor of peace.
Maritime
That which belongs to or is connected with the sea.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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 Guerrilla Family
In the US penitentiary slang, an African-American prison gang that originted as a revolutionary organization.
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--------------------------------------
Birretum or birretus
A cap or coif used formerly in England, by judges and sergeants at law.
Birth
The act of being wholly brought into the world. The whole body must be detached from that of the mother, in order to make the birth complete.
Bisaile
Domestic relations. A corruption of the French word besaieul, the father of the grandfather or grandmother.
Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
Bishoprick
Ecclesiastical law. The extent of country over which a bishop has jurisdiction a see; a diocese.
Black book of the admiralty
Black book of the exchequer
The name of a book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties) conventions, charters.
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.
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.
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.
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