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BOARD OF GOVERNORS
A body that controls an institution that is appointed by the government.
BOARD OF HEALTH
A board or commission created by the sovereign authority or by municipalities, invested with certain powers and charged with certain duties in relation to the preservation and improvement of the […]
BOARD OF PARDONS
A board created by law in some states, whose function is to investigate all applications for executive clemency and to make reports and recommendations thereon to the governor.
BOARD OF PAROLE
See the Parole Board .
BOARD OF REVIEW
an organisation that has the power to review assessments made on property.
BOARD OF SPECIAL INQUIRY
the board that is set up by the commissioner of immigration in order to investigate all matters concerning immigration.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Under the system obtaining in some of the northern states, this name is given to an organized committee, or body of officials, composed of delegates from the several townships in […]
BOARD OF TRADE
An organization of the principal merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen, etc., of a city, for the purpose of furthering its commercial interests, encouraging the establishment of manufactures, promoting trade, securing or improving […]
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The board of a non profit organization . The members are appointed to set policy and manage personnel decisions on a high level. The board is responsible for what they […]
BOARD OF WORKS
The naino of a board of officers appointed for the better local management of the English metropolis . They have the care and management of all grounds and gardens dedicated […]
BOARDER
One who, being the inhabitant of a place, makes a special contract with another person for food with or without lodging. Berkshire Woollen Co. v. Proctor, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 424. […]
BOARDING PASS
A form passengers are given when boarding a transportation vehicle. Their seat number is on the pass to show its reserved for them.
BOARDING-HOUSE
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
BOBTAIL LIABILITY INSURANCE
Insurance policy for tractor trailer trucks that travel commercially. They bring cargo to the location and return to their terminal.
BOC
In Saxon law. A book or writing; a deed or charter. Boc land, deed or char ter land. Land boc, a writing for conveying land; a deed or charter; a […]
BOC HORDE
A place where books, writings, or evidences were kept. Cowell.
BOCERAS
Sax. A scribe, notary, or chancellor among the Saxons.
BODILY
Pertaining to or concerning the body; of or belonging to the body or the physical constitution ; not mental but corporeal. Electric It. Co. v. Lauer, 21 Ind. App. 40(3, […]
BODILY HARM
Any touching of the person of another against his will with physical force, in an intentional , hostile, and aggressive manner, or a projecting of such force against his person. […]
BODILY HEIRS
Heirs begotten or borne by the person referred to; lineal descendants. This term is equivalent to “heirs of the body.” Turner v. Hause, 101) 111. 404, 05 N. E. 445; […]
BODILY INJURY
Any physical or corporeal injury; not necessarily restricted to injury to the trunk or main part of the body as distinguished from the head or limbs. Quirk v. Siegel-Cooper Co., […]
BODILY INJURY (BI) COVERAGE
Insurance bought from a third party that pays cost that comes from injury. It helps cover ambulace, doctors fees, hospital charges, and rehab. Legal costs and lost wages are also […]