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A piece of paper which passengers of transport are given which states the passenger's seat and other terms of boarding the vessel of carriage. … [Read more...] about BOARDING PASS

An amercement for bloodshed. Cowell. The privilege of taking such amercements. Skene. A privilege or exemption from paying a fine or amercement assessed for bloodshed. Cowell. … [Read more...] about BLOODWIT

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

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

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