- An official notice of a public transaction or matter of public importance. BULLION.- Uncoined gold and silver in the mass. Those metals are called so, either when smelted from the native ore, and not perfectly refined; or when they are perfectly refined, but melted down into bars or ingots, or into any unwrought body 5. Co-operative building society.- A society may be formed under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1876 (repealing the Acts of 1862 and 1871), for the purpose of buying and selling land, with power to mortgage, lease or build upon land bought or taken on lease by it. Such societies are sometimes of any degree of fineness.-Wharton. called "co-operative building societies." Dav. B. Soc. 278 et seq. 6. Freehold land societies are only in form within the scope of the Building Societies Acts. In a society of this kind "subscriptions are received from the members in the way generally adopted by building societies, and, with the funds thus acquired, an estate is purchased in some eligible situation. The property is then laid out in lots of a size suited to the wants of the members; roads are made, and other improvements effected, the cost of which, and of the conveyance to the society, is added to the amount of the purchase-money. The total sum thus expended upon the whole estate is then equitably apportioned amongst the several lots, and determines their price. The members are thus enabled to obtain a small quantity of land at wholesale price." (Dav. B. Soc. 63.) As a building society formed under the Building Societies Acts cannot legally hold land, except as security for advances, such an arrangement as the one above described is in reality ultra vires, and has to be effected through the medium of trustees, on whose honor the members must rely. This kind of society was invented principally to give the working classes votes in the days when the franchise was higher than it is now. Second Rep. of Com. 16. BUILDING, WHARF OR OTHER SUPERSTRUCTURE, (does not include a "ditch"). 12 Cal. 542. BUILDINGS, (in covenant to repair). 2 Barn. C. 608. ("sheds" held to be). 10 Bing. 69. BUILT, (in a contract). 38 Iowa 33. (in a subscription for railroad stock). 20 Ohio St. 190. 14. (ship, under navigation act). 1 Stark. (when a railroad is). 38 Iowa 33; 20 Ohio St. 190. BULL.-(1) A cant term of the stock exchange, signifying one who speculates for a rise BURDEN OF PROOF.-A phrase used to denote the duty of proving a fact or facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in an action. This duty lies upon the party who substantially asserts the affirmative of the issue, and is imposed upon him, not because it is impossible to prove a negative, but because the affirmative is capable of more simple and direct proof. 1 Greenl. Ev. & 74. See