Legal Terms- B

Question 1

BAIL

Answer 1

To obtain the release of a person from legal custody by giving security and promising that he shall appear in court; to deliver (goods, etc.) in trust to a person for a special purpose.

Question 2

BAILEE

Answer 2

One to whom personal property is delivered under a contract of bailment.

Question 3

BAILMENT

Answer 3

Delivery of personal property to another to be held for a certain purpose and to be returned when the purpose is accomplished.

Question 4

BAILOR

Answer 4

The party who delivers goods to another, under a contract of bailment.

Question 5

BANC (OR BANK)

Answer 5

Bench; the place where a court sits permanently or regularly; also the assembly of all the judges of a court.

Question 6

BANKRUPT

Answer 6

An insolvent person, technically, one declared to be bankrupt after a bankruptcy proceeding.

Question 7

BAR

Answer 7

The legal profession.

Question 8

BARRATRY

Answer 8

Exciting groundless judicial proceedings.

Question 9

BARTER

Answer 9

A contract by which parties exchange goods for other goods.

Question 10

BATTERY

Answer 10

Illegal interfering with another’s person.

Question 11

BEARER

Answer 11

In commercial law, it means the person in possession of a commercial paper which is payable to the bearer.

Question 12

BENCH

Answer 12

The court itself or the judge.

Question 13

BENEFICIARY

Answer 13

A person benefiting under a will, trust, or arrangement.

Question 14

THE BEST EVIDENCE RULE

Answer 14

Except as otherwise provided by statute, no evidence other than the writing itself is admissible to prove the content of a writing. This section shall be known and may be cited as the best evidence rule.

Question 15

BEQUEST

Answer 15

A gift of personal property under a will.

Question 16

BILL

Answer 16

A formal written statement of complaint to a court of justice; also, a draft of an act of the legislature before it becomes a law; also, accounts for goods sold, services rendered, or work done.

Question 17

BONA FIDE

Answer 17

In or with good faith; honestly.

Question 18

BOND

Answer 18

An instrument by which the maker promises to pay a sum of money to another, usually providing that upon performances of a certain condition the obligation shall be void.

Question 19

BOYCOTT

Answer 19

A plan to prevent the carrying on of a business by wrongful means.

Question 20

BREACH

Answer 20

The breaking or violating of a law, or the failure to carry out a duty.

Question 21

BRIEF

Answer 21

A written document, prepared by a lawyer to service as the basis of an argument upon a case in court, usually an appellate court.

Question 22

BURDEN OF PRODUCING EVIDENCE

Answer 22

The obligation of a party to introduce evidence sufficient to avoid a ruling against him on the issue.

Question 23

BURDEN OF PROOF

Answer 23

The obligation of a party to establish by evidence a requisite degree of belief concerning a fact in the mind of the trier of a fact or the court. The burden of proof may require a party to raise a reasonable doubt concerning the existence of nonexistence of a fact or that he establish the existence of nonexistence of a fact by a preponderance of the evidence, by clear and convincing proof, or by proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Except as otherwise provided by law, the burden of proof requires proof by a preponderance of the evidence.

Question 24

BUSINESS, A

Answer 24

Shall include every kind of business, profession, occupation, calling, or operation of institutions, whether carried on for profit or not.

Question 25

BY-LAWS

Answer 25

Regulations, ordinances, or rules enacted by a corporation, association, etc. , for its own government.