A boarding house is not in common parlance, or in legal meaning, every private house where one or more boarders are kept occasionally only and upon special considerations. But it is a quasi public house, where boarders are generally and habitually kept, and which is held out and known as a place of entertainment of that kind. Oady v. McDowell, 1 Lans. (N. Y.) 486. A boarding … [Read more...] about BOARDING-HOUSE
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BLOODY HAND
In forest law. The having the hands or other parts bloody, which, in a person caught trespassing in the forest against venison, was one of the four kinds of circumstantial evidence of his having killed deer, although he was not found in the act of chasing or hunting. Manwood. … [Read more...] about BLOODY HAND
BOAT
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars or rowing. It is commonly distinguished in law from a ship or vessel, by being of smaller size and without a deck. U. S. v. Open Boat, 5 Mason, 120, 137, Fed. Cas. No. 15,967. … [Read more...] about BOAT
BLOTTER
mer. law. A book among merchants, in which entries of sales are first made. 2. This book, containing the original entries, is received in evidence, when supported by the oaths or affirmations of those who keep it. See Original entry. … [Read more...] about BLOTTER
BOATABLE
A term applied in some states to minor rivers and streams capable of being navigated in small boats, skiffs, or launches, though not by steam or sailing vessels. New England Trout, etc., Club v. Mather, 68 Vt. 338, 35 Atl. 323, 33 L. R. A. 569. … [Read more...] about BOATABLE