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That which makes one obligated or required to do something. … [Read more...] about BINDING

A word used by Britton In the sense of "collateral." En line Mline, In the collateral line. Britt. c. 119. … [Read more...] about BILINE

commercial law. A certificate, properly authenticated, that a certain ship or vessel therein named, comes from a place where no contagious distempers prevail, and that none of the crew at the time of her departure were infected with any such distemper. 2. It is generally found on board of ships coming from the Levant, or from the coast of Barbary, where the plague so frequently … [Read more...] about BILL OF HEALTH

Of a double language or tongue; that can speak two languages. A term applied in the old books to a jury composed partly of Englishmen and partly of foreigners, which, by the English law, an alien party to a suit is, in certain cases, entitled to; more commonly called a "jury de medietate Ungues." 3 Bl. Comm. 360; 4 Steph. Comm. 422. … [Read more...] about BILINGUIS

A written accusation of one or more persons, of a crime or misdemeanor, lawfully presented to a grand jury, convoked, to consider whether there is sufficient evidence of the charge contained therein to put the accused on trial. It is returned to the court with an indorsement of true bill when the grand jury are satisfied that the accused ought to be tried; or ignoramus, when … [Read more...] about BILL OF INDICTMENT