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bucketing.Securities. The illegal practice of receiving an order to buy or sell stock but not immediately performing the order. • The perpetrator profits by executing the order when the stock market goes down or up, respectively, but confirming the order to the customer at the original price.[Blacks Law 8th]

Bubble Act.An English statute passed in 1720 to prevent corporate fraud.[Blacks Law 8th]

bubble.Slang. A dishonest or insubstantial business project, generally founded on a fictitiousor exaggerated prospectus, designed to ensnare unwary investors.[Blacks Law 8th]

BTS.abbr.1.BORDER AND TRANSPORTATION SAFETY DIRECTORATE. 2.BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS . [Blacks Law 8th]

  BTA.abbr.Board of Tax Appeals. See TAX COURT, U.S.[Blacks Law 8th]

BSD license.See LICENSE.[Blacks Law 8th]

BSA.abbr. BUSINESS SOFTWARE ALLIANCE.[Blacks Law 8th]

b.s.abbr.See bancus superior under BANCUS.[Blacks Law 8th]

Bryan treaties.Int’l law. Any of 48 treaties designed to avert war by requiring the signatories to submit disputes of any kind to standing peace commissions. • The first of these treaties, named after Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, was signed between the United States and Great Britain in 1914. [Blacks Law 8th]

brutum fulmen (broo-t<<schwa>>m f<<schwa>>l-men or -m<<schwa>>n). [Latin “inert thunder”] 1. An empty noise; an empty threat; something ineffectual. 2. A judgment void on its face; one that is, in legal effect, no judgment at all. [Cases: Judgment  27, 485, 486. C.J.S. Judgments §§ 499, 512, 546, 549.][Blacks Law 8th]