A roll, required by the St. 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 76, to be kept in corporate towns or boroughs, of the names of burgesses entitled to certain new rights conferred by that act. … [Read more...]

The insurance policy that sets forth terms and conditions of payment for burial and disposal costs of a deceased person. See burial insurance. … [Read more...]

(A) This refers to a party's level of proof needed to convince a judge or jury that the party's facts alleged are true and their position meritorious. Civil trials require that a plaintiff prove a case by a preponderance of the evidence that it is more likely than not that the plaintiff's version of the truth is the correct one. Criminal cases require a much higher level of … [Read more...]

A borough; a castle or town. … [Read more...]

Murder committed with the object of selling the cadaver for purposes of dissection, particularly and originally, by suffocating or strangling the victim. So named from William Burke, a notorious practitioner of this crime, who was hanged at Edinburgh in 1829. It is said that the first instance of his name being thus used as a synonym for the form of death he had inflicted on … [Read more...]