Common short form of web blog which usually refers to a journal of regular articles that is published on the Internet. The content may be person in nature or may cover other business, news and political subjects. Much debate has been made over whether blogs are to be given the rights granted to the press. … [Read more...] about BLOG
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BLUE LAWS
A supposititious code of severe laws for the regulation of religious and personal conduct in the colonies of Connecticut' and New Haven; hence any rigid Sunday laws or religious regulations. The assertion by some writers of the existence of the blue laws has no other basis than the adoption, by the first authorities of the New Haven colony, of the Scriptures as their code of … [Read more...] about BLUE LAWS
BLOOD
Kindred; consanguinity; family relationship; relation by descent from a common ancestor. One person Is "of the blood" of another when they are related by lineal descent or collateral kinship. Miller v. Speer, 38 N. J. Eq. 572; Delaplaine v. Jones, 8 N. J. Law, 346; Leigh v. Leigh, 15 Ves. 108; Cummings v. Cummings, 146 Mass. 501, 16 N. EL 401; Swasey v. Jaques, 144 Mass. 135, … [Read more...] about BLOOD
BLUE SKY LAW
A law which prevents the sale of stock of a shady or fraudulent company. … [Read more...] about BLUE SKY LAW
BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION
The amount of alcohol contained in a person's bloodstream which is set, by law, to determine whether someone is legally intoxicated. … [Read more...] about BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION