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buy-and-sell agreement.See BUY–SELL AGREEMENT. [Blacks Law 8th]

buy. See PURCHASE(1).[Blacks Law 8th]

butlerage.Hist. A duty on wine imported into England, payable to the royal butler. Cf.PRISAGE. BUT SEE but see.See SED VIDE.[Blacks Law 8th]

butts and bounds.See METES AND BOUNDS. [Blacks Law 8th]

buttals (b<<schwa>>t-<<schwa>>lz).Archaic. See ABUTTALS. [Blacks Law 8th]

but so insane as not to be responsible.See GUILTY BUT MENTALLY ILL.[Blacks Law 8th]

but-for test.Tort & criminal law. The doctrine that causation exists only when the result would not have occurred without the party’s conduct. — Also termed (in criminal law) had-not test. See but-for cause under CAUSE(1). [Cases: Criminal Law  26; Negligence  379. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 44–45, 1110.][Blacks Law 8th]

but-for materiality.Patents. In an analysis of allegedly inequitable conduct, a test for determining the materiality of withheld information by assessing whether the withheld information, if disclosed, would have resulted in a finding of unpatentability. • Under this test — also called the objective but-for test — the issue is whether the patent would have issued…

but-for cause.See CAUSE(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

bust-up merger.See MERGER. [Blacks Law 8th]