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burnt-records act.A statute that enables a property owner to quiet title if the public records forthe property have been lost or destroyed in a disaster.[Blacks Law 8th]

burlaw court.See BYRLAW COURT. [Blacks Law 8th]

burlaw. See BYRLAW.[Blacks Law 8th]

burking,n. The crime of murdering someone, usu. by smothering, for the purpose of selling the corpse. • This term arose from the Scottish murder team of Burke and Hare, whose practice in 1828 of suffocating their victims while leaving few visible marks made the corpses more salable to medical schools. — burke,vb.[Blacks Law 8th]

  buried-facts doctrine.Securities. The rule that a proxy-statement disclosure is inadequate if a reasonable shareholder could fail to understand the risks presented by facts scattered throughout the proxy. • In applying this rule, a court will consider a securities disclosure to be false and misleading if its overall significance is obscured because material information is…

burial insurance.See INSURANCE.[Blacks Law 8th]

burgle. See BURGLARIZE. [Blacks Law 8th]

burglary tool.(often pl.) An implement designed to assist a person in committing a burglary. • In many jurisdictions, it is illegal to possess such a tool if the possessor intends to commit a burglary. [Cases: Burglary  12. C.J.S. Burglary §§ 44–48.][Blacks Law 8th]

burglary,n.1. The common-law offense of breaking and entering another’s dwelling at night with the intent to commit a felony. 2. The modern statutory offense of breaking and entering any building — not just a dwelling, and not only at night — with the intent to commit a felony. • Some statutes make petit larceny an…

burglarize,vb. To commit a burglary <the defendant burglarized three houses>. — Also termed (esp. in BrE) burgle.[Blacks Law 8th]