In feudal law. Low Justice; the right exercised by feudal lords of personally trying persons charged with trespasses or minor offenses. … [Read more...] about BASSE JUSTICE
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BATTERED WIFE SYNDROME
A claim of self defense to a criminal charge against a woman where expert evidence is offered to show that the female in an abusive relationship believed that her only choice was to kill her husband in order to save herself. … [Read more...] about BATTERED WIFE SYNDROME
BEAR
To support, sustain, or carry; to give rise to or to produce, something else as an incident or auxiliary. Bear arms. To carry arms as weapons and with reference to their military use, not to wear them about the person as part of the dress. Aymette v. State, 2 Humph. (Tenn.) 158. As applied to fire arms, includes the right to load and shoot them, and to use them as such things … [Read more...] about BEAR
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Fr. Low; inferior; subordinate. Bas chevaliers. In old English law. Low, or inferior knights, by tenure of a base military fee, as distinguished from barons and bannerets, who. were the chief or superior knights. Cowell. Bas ville. In French law. The suburbs of a town. … [Read more...] about BAS
BASTARD
An illegitimate child; a child born of an unlawful intercourse, and while its parents are not united in marriage. Tim mins v. Lacy, 30 Tex. 135; Miller v. Anderson, 43 Ohio St. 473, 3 N. E. 605, 54 Am. Rep. 823; Pettus v. Dawson, 82 Tex. 18, 17 S. W. 714; Smith v. Perry, 80 Va. 570. A child born after marriage, but under circumstances which render it impossible that the husband … [Read more...] about BASTARD