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backed by the people." Macaulay. Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments. South. The mate backed the captain manfully. Blackw. Mag.

Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.…

A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

be real, substantial bondsmen. Blackstone. A. and B. were bail to the arrest in a suit at law. Kent.

lment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. Dalton.

An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

s at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. Shak.

The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc. Burrill.

A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.

Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.

The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

ything bought cheap. She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. Shak. Bargain and sale (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i.e.…

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

ticles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31

Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney. [Eng.]

An inferior court of law, not of record.

Wearing, or protected by, bases. [Obs.] "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall.

A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century. P. Cyc.

Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.

bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.