In old English law. Rents reserved in work, grain, provisions, or baser money, in contradistinction to those which were reserved in white money or silver, which were termed "white rents," (reditus albi,) or blanch farms. Tomlins; Whishaw. … [Read more...] about BLACK RENTS
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BLANK
A space left unfilled in a written document, in which one or more words or marks are to be inserted to complete the sense. Angle v. Insurance Co., 92 U. S. 337, 23 L. Ed. 556. Also a skeleton or printed form for any legal document, in which the necessary and invariable words are printed in their proper order, with blank spaces left for the insertion of such names, dates, … [Read more...] about BLANK
BLEMISH
A defect, an imperfection. An area that shows damage. To blemish means to cause an imperfection to come about. … [Read more...] about BLEMISH
BISHOPRICK
eccl. law. The extent of country over which a bishop has jurisdiction a see; a diocese. … [Read more...] about BISHOPRICK
BLACK WARD
A subvassal, who held ward of the king's vassal. … [Read more...] about BLACK WARD