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BRANCH

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An offshoot lateral extension, or subdivision. A branch of a family stock is a group of persons, related among themselves by descent from a common ancestor, and related to the main stock by the fact that that common ancestor descends from the original founder or progenitor. Branch of the sea. This term, as used at common law, included rivers in which the tide! ebbed and flowed. … [Read more...]

BOUGHT NOTE

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contracts. An instrument in writing, given by a broker to the seller of merchandise, in which it is stated that the goods therein mentioned have been sold for him. There appears, however, some confusion in the books, on the subject of these notes sometimes they are called sold notes. 2 B. & Ald. 144 Blackb. on Sales, 89. 2. This note is signed in the broker's name, as agent … [Read more...]

BOUSSOLE

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In French marine law. A compass; the mariner's compass. … [Read more...]

BRANCHES

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Those solid parts of trees which grow above the trunk. 2. In general the owner of a tree is the owner of the branches; but when they grow beyond his line, and extend over the adjoining estate, the proprietor of the latter may cut them off as far as they grow over his land. Rolle's R. 394.; 3 Bulst. 198. But as this nuisance is one of omission, and, as in the case of such … [Read more...]

BOULEVARD

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The word "boulevard," which originally indicated a bulwark or rampart, and was afterwards applied to a public walk or road on the site of a demolished fortification, is now employed in the same sense as public drive. A park is a piece of ground adapted and set apart for purposes of ornament, exercise, and amusement. It is not a' street or road, though carriages may pass through … [Read more...]

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