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  book,vb.1. To record in a book (as a sale or accounting item) <Jenkins booked three sales that day>.2. To record the name of (a person arrested) in a sequential list of police arrests, with details of the person’s identity (usu. including a photograph and a fingerprint), particulars about the alleged offense, and the name…

boodling.Hist. Slang. Bribery. — boodle,vb.[Blacks Law 8th]

boodle.Slang. Money paid as a bribe, usu. to a public official.[Blacks Law 8th]

bonus zoning.See incentive zoning under ZONING.[Blacks Law 8th]

bonus stock.See STOCK. [Blacks Law 8th]

bonus share.See bonus stock under STOCK.[Blacks Law 8th]

bonus. 1. A premium paid in addition to what is due or expected <year-end bonus>. • In the employment context, workers’ bonuses are not a gift or gratuity; they are paid for services or on consideration in addition to or in excess of the compensation that would ordinarily be given. 2.BOUNTY(3).3.Oil & gas. A payment…

bonum factum (boh-n<<schwa>>m fak-t<<schwa>>m). [Latin] A good or proper act or deed. — Abbr. b.f. — Also termed bene factum.[Blacks Law 8th]

bonorum     possessio           contra   tabulas (b<<schwa>>-nor-<<schwa>>m p<<schwa>>-zes[h]-ee-oh kahn-tr<<schwa>> tab-y<<schwa>>-l<<schwa>>s). [Latin “possession of goods contrary to the terms of the will”] Roman law. An order authorizing the applicant to take possession of an estate contrary to the testament. • Magistrates made such orders in certain cases,   as where a testator passed over a…

bono et malo (boh-noh et mal-oh). See DE BONO ET MALO.[Blacks Law 8th]