Law Dictionary Definitions

buffer zone.Land-use planning. An area of land separating two different zones or areas to help each blend more easily with the other, such as a strip of land between industrial and residential areas. [Cases: Zoning and Planning  31, 272. C.J.S. Zoning and Land Planning §§ 40, 42, 122.][Blacks Law 8th]

Buenos Aires Convention.Copyright. A 1910 treaty regulating copyright reciprocity among Latin American nations and the United States. • Under this agreement, the phrase “all rights reserved” guaranteed copyright protection in member nations. Since all the Convention’s signatories are now signatories to more recent and broader international-copyright treaties, this Convention now has little if any practical…

budget bill.See BILL(3).[Blacks Law 8th]

Buckley Amendment.See FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVACY ACT.[Blacks Law 8th]

bucket shop.Securities. An establishment that is nominally engaged in stock-exchange transactions or some similar business, but in fact engages in registering bets or wagers, usu. for small amounts, on the rise or fall of the prices of stocks and commodities. • A bucket shop uses the terms and outward forms of the exchanges, but differs…

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]