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Borough
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BoroughAn incorporated town; so called in the charter. It is less than a city.
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Town
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township.
Charter
1) A grant made by the sovereign either to the whole people or to a portion of them, securing to them the enjoyment of certain rights. 2) Mar. contr. An agreement by which a vessel is hired by the owner to another.
City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
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Borough english
English law. This, as the name imports, relates exclusively to the English law.
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Books
Commerce, accounts. Merchants, traders, and other persons, who are desirous of understanding their affairs, and of explaining them when necessary, keep, 1. a day book; 2. a journal; 3. a ledger; 4. a letter book; 5. an invoice book; 6. a cash book; 7. a bill book; 8. a bank book; and 9. a cheek book. The reader is referred to these several articles
Bootless
Bootless or boteless. Without recompense, reward or satisfaction made unprofitable or without success.
Booty
War. The capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an enemy, on the sea.
Border crosser
An alien resident of the United States reentering the country after an absence of less than six months in Canada or Mexico, or a nonresident alien entering the United States across the Canadian border for stays of no more than six months or across the Mexican border for stays of no more than 72 hours.
Born out of wedlock
Born of parents who were not married at the time of birth.
Borough
Borough english
English law. This, as the name imports, relates exclusively to the English law.
Borrowing statute
A statute, whereby an action or claim which is being barred by a foreign limitation statute, will also be barred in the forum. The applicable foreign limitation is typically that of the place where the cause of action arose.
Boscage
English law. That food which wood and trees yield to cattle.
Bote
Recompense, satisfaction, amends, profit or advantage : hence came the word man-bote, denoting a compensation for a man slain; house-bote, cart-bote, plough-bote, signify that a tenant is privileged to cut wood for these uses.
Boteless
Boteless or bootless. Without recompense, reward or satisfaction made unprofitable or without success.
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Town
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township.
Charter
1) A grant made by the sovereign either to the whole people or to a portion of them, securing to them the enjoyment of certain rights. 2) Mar. contr. An agreement by which a vessel is hired by the owner to another.
City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
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Borough english
English law. This, as the name imports, relates exclusively to the English law.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Books
Commerce, accounts. Merchants, traders, and other persons, who are desirous of understanding their affairs, and of explaining them when necessary, keep, 1. a day book; 2. a journal; 3. a ledger; 4. a letter book; 5. an invoice book; 6. a cash book; 7. a bill book; 8. a bank book; and 9. a cheek book. The reader is referred to these several articles
Bootless
Bootless or boteless. Without recompense, reward or satisfaction made unprofitable or without success.
Booty
War. The capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an enemy, on the sea.
Border crosser
An alien resident of the United States reentering the country after an absence of less than six months in Canada or Mexico, or a nonresident alien entering the United States across the Canadian border for stays of no more than six months or across the Mexican border for stays of no more than 72 hours.
Born out of wedlock
Born of parents who were not married at the time of birth.
Borough
Borough english
English law. This, as the name imports, relates exclusively to the English law.
Borrowing statute
A statute, whereby an action or claim which is being barred by a foreign limitation statute, will also be barred in the forum. The applicable foreign limitation is typically that of the place where the cause of action arose.
Boscage
English law. That food which wood and trees yield to cattle.
Bote
Recompense, satisfaction, amends, profit or advantage : hence came the word man-bote, denoting a compensation for a man slain; house-bote, cart-bote, plough-bote, signify that a tenant is privileged to cut wood for these uses.
Boteless
Boteless or bootless. Without recompense, reward or satisfaction made unprofitable or without success.
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