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Germ. In European maritime law. A document furnished by the builder of a vessel, containing a register of her admeasurement, particularizing the length, breadth, and dimensions of every part of the ship. It sometimes also contain the terms of agreement between the party for whose account the ship is built, and the ship builder. It has been termed in English the "grand bill of … [Read more...] about BIELBRIEF

Bestiality is the carnal knowledge and connection against the order of nature by man or woman in any manner with a beast Code Ga. 1882, … [Read more...] about BESTIALITY

Inclination; bent; prepossession; a preconceived opinion; a predisposition to decide a cause or an issue in a certain way, which does not leave the mind perfectly open to conviction. Maddox v. State, 32 Ga. 587, 79 Am. Dec. 307; Pierson v. State, 18 Tex. App. 558; Hinkle v. State, 94 Ga. 595, 21 S. E. 601. This term is not synonymous with "prejudice." By the use of this word in … [Read more...] about BIAS

Sp. In Spanish law. Goods; property of every description, including real as well as personal property; all things (not being persons) which may serve for the uses of man. Larkin v. U. S., 14 Fed. Cas. 1154. Bienes comnnei. Common property; those things which, not being the private property of any person, are open to the use of all, such as the air, rain, water, the sea and its … [Read more...] about BIENES

An agreement between two or more persons that a sum of money or other valuable thing, to which all jointly contribute, shall become the sole property of one or some of them on the happening in the future of an event at present uncertain, or according as a question disputed between them is settled in one way or the other. Harris v. White, 81 N. T. 532; Rich v. State, 38 Tex. Cr. … [Read more...] about BET