BALE

A pack or certain quantity of goods or merch and is~, wrapped or packed up in cloth and corded round very tightly, mark, ed and numbered with figures corresponding to those in the bills of lading for the purpose flf identification. Wharton. A bale of cotton Is a certain quantity of that commodity compre ed into a cubical form, so as to occupy le room than when in bags. 2 Car. & P. 525. Penrice v. Cocks, 2 Mi . 229. But see Bonham v. Railroad Co., 16 s. 0. 634. BAL_ISE. Fr. In French marine law. A buoy. BALms. In the civil law. A teacher; one who has the care of youth; a tutor; a guardian. Du Cange; Spelman. [s. 121]