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battered-person syndrome.See BATTERED-WOMAN SYNDROME. [Blacks Law 8th]

battered-child syndrome.Family law. A constellation of medical and psychological conditions of a child who has suffered continuing injuries that could not be accidental and are therefore presumed to have been inflicted by someone close to the child, usu. a caregiver. • Diagnosis typically results from a radiological finding of distinct bone trauma and persistent tissue…

battered child.See CHILD.[Blacks Law 8th]

Batson challenge.See CHALLENGE(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

bathtub conspiracy.See intra-enterprise conspiracy under CONSPIRACY.[Blacks Law 8th]

Bates stamp,n.1. A self-advancing stamp machine used for affixing an identifying mark, usu. a number, to a document or to the individual pages of a document. 2.BATES-STAMP NUMBER. — Sometimes (erroneously) written Bate stamp.[Blacks Law 8th]

Bates number.See BATES-STAMP NUMBER.[Blacks Law 8th]

batable ground (bay-t<<schwa>>-b<<schwa>>l). Land of uncertain ownership. • Batable (or debatable) ground originally referred to certain lands on the border of England and Scotland before the 1603 union of the two kingdoms.[Blacks Law 8th]

  bastardy process.See PATERNITY SUIT. [Blacks Law 8th]

bastardy statute.Archaic. A criminal statute that punishes an unwed father for failing to support his child. • These statutes have been found unconstitutional because they unfairly discriminate against fathers and do not punish unwed mothers. So they are unenforceable.[Blacks Law 8th]