"Building Lien" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

In mining law. A lateral entrance or passage lnto a mine; tbe opening by which a mine is entered, or …

The act of corrupt-ing or debasing. The term is generally np-piied to the act of mixing up with food or …

At oommon law. Relationship by marriage between the husband and the blood relations of the wife, and be-tween the wife …

That increase of the earth on a shore or bank of a river, or to the shore of the sea, …

A delivery of goods or per-sonal property, by one person to another, in trust for the execution of a special …

A private person who keeps a bank; one who is engaged in the business of banking. People v. Doty, 80 …

An illegitimate child; a child born of an unlawful intercourse, and while its parents are not united in marriage. Tlm-mlns …

To obligate; to bring or place under definite duties or legal obligations, particularly by a bond or covenant; to affect …

In criminal law. The re-ceiving or offering any undue reward by or to any person whomsoever, whose ordinary profession or …

The act of depositing money in the custody of a court or of its clerk or marshal, for the purpose …

A wife’s brother or a sister’s husband. There is not any re-lationskip, but only affinity, between broth-ers-ln-law. Farmers’ L. & …

In criminal law. The breaking and entering the house of another in the night-time, with intent to commit a felony …

OR. Let the buyer take care. This maxim summarizes the rule that the purchaser of an article must examine, judge, …

To yield up; to assign; to grant. Generally used to designate the transfer of territory from one government to another. …

By common usage ln Amer* ica, thls term, ln such phrases as “colored persons," “the colored race,” “colored men,” and …

In mercantlle law. one to whom a consignment is made. The person to whom goods are shipped for sale. Lyon …

Colued money aud such bank-notes or other paper money as are au-thorissed by lnw aud do in fact circulate from …

As near as [possible.] The rule of cy-prcs is a rule for the construction of instruments in equity, by which …

A certificate given by the collector of a port, under the United States customs laws, to the effect that an …

In practice. A form of ac-tion which lies for the recovery, in specie, of personal chattels from one who acquired …