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Burden of proof
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Burden of proofThis phrase is employed to signify the duty of proving the facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause.
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Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Issue
1) Kindred. This term is of very extensive import, in its most enlarged signification, and includes all persons who have descended from a common ancestor. But when this word is used in a will, in order to give effect to the testator's intention it will be construed in a more restricted sense than its legal import conveys. 2) Pleading. An issue, in pleading, is defined to be a single, certain and material point issuing out of the allegations of the parties, and consisting, regularly, of an affirmative and negative. In common parlance, issue also signifies the entry of the pleadings.
Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
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Bulk
Contracts. Said to be merchandise which is neither counted, weighed, nor measured.
Bulletin
An official account of public transactions on matters of importance.
Bullion
In its usual acceptation, is uncoined gold or silver, in bars, plates, or other masses.
Bunker pollution convention
The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, adopted at London on March 23, 2001, not yet in force.
Buoy
A piece of wood, or an empty barrel, floating on the water, to show the place where it is shallow, to indicate the danger there is to navigation.
Burden of proof
Bureau
A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the secretary of state.
Bureaucracy
The abuse of official influence in the affairs of government; corruption. This word has lately been adopted to signify that those persons who are employed in bureaus abuse their authority by intrigue to promote their own benefit, or that of friends, rather than the public good. The word is derived from the French.
Burgage
English law. A species of tenure in socage; it is where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain.
Burgess
A magistrate of a borough; generally, the chief officer of the corporation, who performs, within the borough, the same kind of duties which a mayor does in a city. In England, the word is sometimes applied to all the inhabitants of a borough, who are called burgesses sometimes it signifies the representatives of a borough in parliament.
Burgh
A borough; a castle or town.
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Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
Issue
1) Kindred. This term is of very extensive import, in its most enlarged signification, and includes all persons who have descended from a common ancestor. But when this word is used in a will, in order to give effect to the testator's intention it will be construed in a more restricted sense than its legal import conveys. 2) Pleading. An issue, in pleading, is defined to be a single, certain and material point issuing out of the allegations of the parties, and consisting, regularly, of an affirmative and negative. In common parlance, issue also signifies the entry of the pleadings.
Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
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Bulk
Contracts. Said to be merchandise which is neither counted, weighed, nor measured.
Bulletin
An official account of public transactions on matters of importance.
Bullion
In its usual acceptation, is uncoined gold or silver, in bars, plates, or other masses.
Bunker pollution convention
The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, adopted at London on March 23, 2001, not yet in force.
Buoy
A piece of wood, or an empty barrel, floating on the water, to show the place where it is shallow, to indicate the danger there is to navigation.
Burden of proof
Bureau
A French word, which literally means a large writing table. It is used figuratively for the place where business is transacted: it has been borrowed by us, and used in nearly the same sense; as, the bureau of the secretary of state.
Bureaucracy
The abuse of official influence in the affairs of government; corruption. This word has lately been adopted to signify that those persons who are employed in bureaus abuse their authority by intrigue to promote their own benefit, or that of friends, rather than the public good. The word is derived from the French.
Burgage
English law. A species of tenure in socage; it is where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain.
Burgess
A magistrate of a borough; generally, the chief officer of the corporation, who performs, within the borough, the same kind of duties which a mayor does in a city. In England, the word is sometimes applied to all the inhabitants of a borough, who are called burgesses sometimes it signifies the representatives of a borough in parliament.
Burgh
A borough; a castle or town.
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