BUY

To acquire the ownership of property by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor; or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase. Webster. -Buy in. Tp purchase, at public sale, property which is one's own or which one bas caused or procured to be sold.-Buyer. One who buys; a purchaser, particularly of chattels.- Buying titles. The purchase of the rights or claims to real estate of a person who is not in po e ion of the land or is di eised. Void, and an offense, at common law. Whitaker v. Cone, 2 Johns. Oas. (N. Y.) 59; Brinley v. Whiting, 5 Pick. (Ma .) 356. BY. This word, when descriptively used In a grant, does not mean "in immediate contact with," but "near" to, the objel!t to which it relates; and "near" is a relative term, meaning, when used in land paterlts, very unequal and different distances. Wells v. Mfg. Co., 48 N. H. 491. A contract to complete work b'I/ a certain time, means that it shall be done before that time. Rankin v. Wood worth, 3 Pen. & W. (Pa.) 48. By an a.cquitta.noe for the last pay~ ment all other a.rrea.ra.ges a.re discharged. Noy, 40. BY-BmDING. See [s. 164]