754 BAR 
3 common oppreffbr, and difturber of the peace, and ftir- 
rer up of ft rife among neighbours, is.good, without adding 
the words common barrefor , which is a term of art appro¬ 
priated by law to this purpofe. i Mad- o-SS. 1 ^2^. 
Cro. Jac. 526. i Hawk. P. Q. C, 81. 
A common barratpr is faid to he the mod: dangerous op- 
preil'pr in the law ; for he o.ppf.e/feth the innocent by co¬ 
lour of law, which was made to protect them from op- 
•preflion. 8 Hep. 37. No one can be a barratpr in refpefft 
of one. aft only ; for every indiftment for fuch crime mud 
charge the defendant with being communis barraElaPor, and 
conclude contra paean, &c. And it hath been holdep, that 
a man (hall not be adjudged a barrator for bringing any 
number of fuits in his own right, though they are vexa¬ 
tious, efpecialjy if there be any colour for them; for, if 
they prove falfe, he (hall pay the defendant cpfts. 1 /ini. 
Abr 355. 3 Mod. 98. A barrifter at law entertaining a 
perfon in his hpiife, and bringing l'everal aftipns in his 
name, where nothing was due, was found guilty of bar¬ 
ratry. 3 Mod. 97. An attorney is in no danger of being 
conviffed of barratry, in refpeft of bis maintaining ano¬ 
ther in a groundlefs affion, to the commencing whereof 
he was no way privy. A common (olicitor, who fobcits 
fuits, is a common barrator, and may be indnfted thereof, 
becaufe it is no profeffipn m jaw. 1 Dfiny. Abr. 725. 
The punifhmenr for this offence in a common perfon is 
by fine and imprifonrnent; but, if the offender (as is too 
frequently the cafe) belongs fo the profetiion of the lav/, 
a barrator w ho is thus able as well as willing to do mif- 
chief, ought alio to be dnabled from pratfifing- for the fu¬ 
ture. (fat. 12 Geo. 1 . c. 29. 34. EJw. 111 . c. j. 1 Hawk. P. 
C. c. 81. It feems to be the fettled practice not to fuffer 
the profeciitor to go on in the trial of an indictment of tins 
Jkind, without giving the defendant a note of the particu¬ 
lar matters which lie intends to prove again ft him; for 
otherwife it would be impoffible to prepare a defence againft 
fo general and uncertain a charge, which may be proved 
by Inch a multiplicity of different indances. 5 Mod. 18. j 
Pd'. Ray\n. 490. 1 -Hawk. P. C. c. 81. To this head may al- 
fo be referred another offence of equal malignity and au- 
dacioufnefs, that of filing another in the name of a ficti¬ 
tious plaintiff; either one not in being at all, or one who 
is ignorant of the fuit. This offence, if committed in any 
of the king’s fuperior courts, is left, as a high contempt, 
to be punifhed at their diferetion. But, in courts pf a. 
lower decree, where the crime is equally pernicious, but 
the authority of the judges not equally extendve, it is di- 
reded by dat. 8 Eliz. c. 2, to be punifhed by fix months 
imprifonrnent, and treble damages to the party injured, 
4 Comm. .. 134. 
BAR'RATRY,/ The pradice or crime of a barrator; 
fpul praidlce in law : 
’Tis arrant barratry , that bears 
Point blank an a’dion ’gainft our laws. Hudibras. 
Barratry, in a fhipmafter, is his cheating the own¬ 
ers. If goods delivered on fhip-board are embezzled, all 
the mariners ought to contribute to the fatisfadion of the 
party that loft his goods, by the maritime law ; and the 
caufe is to be tried in the admiralty. In cafe where a fhip 
was in hired again!!: the barratry of the mafter, &c. and 
the jury found that the diip wa? lod by the fraud and neg¬ 
ligence of the mader, the court agreed, that the fraud 
was barratry, though not named in the covenant;, but that 
negligence was not. 
BARRAU'X, a fortrefs of Dauphin?, belonging to 
France. It dands in the valley of Grefivaudan, and was 
built by the duke of Savoy in 1597. The French took 
it in 1598, and have kept-it ever fince. 
BARRE', a town of France, in the department of the 
iLozerre, and chief place of a ca»tpn, in the diflridl of 
Florae: two leagues louth of Florae, and fix and a half 
wed-north-wed of Alais. 
Bar're (La), a town of France, in the department of 
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BAR 
the Eyre, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of 
Bernay: three leagues fouth-fouth-eaft of Bernay, and 
fix and a half weft-fouth-weft of Evreux. 
Barre' (Louis Francois Jofeph de la), of Tpirrnay, 
author of feverai works printed at Paris. Amongfl others, 
Hiper. Qriaitak, Rectal des jvUdaUUs des Empereyrs, 1 Me¬ 
moirs fpr the Hiftory of France, dec.’ He died in 2738. 
BARRE'A, a circar or diffriff pf Flj.ndoftan, in. the 
country of Gunerat. 
BARRE'GE I.E BAINS, a. town of France, fituated 
in a valley, at the foot of the Pyrenees, in which are a 
number of medicinal fprings of different degrees of heat, 
from luke-warm to nearly Raiding hot; from 93P to 113 0 
of Fahrenheit’s thermometer. The. waters are limpid, 
unffuous, or oily to the touch, and in ta.de and fine 1,1 laid 
tO-n?.f(emfeje eggs on which a hen has fat feme time. They 
re tiled both for bathing.and drinking,. Barrege le Bains 
is fix ppifs jfputh of Tarbe.s. Lat. 42. 33. N. Ion. 17. 43. 
E. Ferro. 
BAR.'REL,yi [baril, Welfh.] In the cooperage, a round 
wooden vcffel, to be flopped dole. — It hath been obferv- 
ed by one pf the ancients, that an empty barrel , knocked 
upon with the finger, giveth a diapafon tp the found of 
live like barrep full. Bacon.— Any thing hollow ; as, the 
barrel of a gpo, that parr which holds the dipt.—Take the 
bawd of a Ipng gun perfectly bored, let it upright with 
the breech upon the ground, and take a bullet exactly fit 
for it: then, if you fuck at the mouth of the barrel ever 
fo gently, the bullet will come up fo forcibly, that it will 
hazard the finking out your teeth. Digby.—A cylinder; 
frequently that cylinder about w hich any thing is wound, 
as the fpring of a watch, &c.—Your firing and bow rmift 
be accommodated to your drill ; if too weak, it will not 
.carry about the barrel. Moxon — Barrel of th.e Ear, is a ca¬ 
vity behind the tympanum, covered with a fine membrane. 
Barrel, in commerce, a legal meafure of divers com¬ 
modities. . A barrel of wine contains the eighth part of a. 
tun, the fourth part of a pipe, and the moiety of a hogf- 
h.ead ; that is, thirty-one gallons and a half. Star. 1 Rich¬ 
ard HI. c.13. Of beer, it contains thirty-fix gallons; 
and of ale, thirty-two gallons. 23 Henry VIII. c. 4, 12 
Car. II. c. 23. The affile of herring-barrels is thirty-two 
gallons wine meafure, containing inevery barrel ufually a 
.th.ou land full herrings. 13 Elia. c. 11. 1 he pel-barrel 
contains thirty gallons, alien. VI, c. n. It alfo denotes 
•a certain quantity or weight of fpndry merchandizes, by 
cuflom ; thus, a barrel of Effex butter weighs io6lbs. and 
of Sifffblk butter, 23&lbs. The barrel of fa! man contains 
forty-two gallons; the barrel of fogp jc6lbs. 
To Barrel, v. a. To put any thing in a barrel for pre- 
fervation. 
Barrel-bellied, adj. [from£crreifand£e//y.] Having 
a large belly. 
BAR'RELS, rocks near the fouth coaft of the county 
of Wexford, in the Irilh Sea, five miles fouth weft of 
Carnfore Point. 
Barrels, rocks near the fouth coa.ft pf Ireland, in 
Cpurtmafchery-bay. 
FAe-BARRELs. See Fire-ship. 
Thundtring- Barrels* in tire military art, are filled with 
bombs, grenades, and other fire-works, tp be rolled down 
a breach, 
BARRE'ME, a town oF France, ip the department of 
the Lower Alps, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Digiie : ten miles fouth-fpyth-eaf-t of Digne. 
BAR'REN, adj. [ 1 bare , Sax. naked ; properly applied 
to trees or ground unfruitful. ] Without the quality of pro¬ 
ducing its kind ; not prolific : applied to animals.,—There 
(hall not be male or female barren, among you, or among 
you r cattle. Deuteronomy .— Unfruitful; sot fertile; fterile. 
—The fituation of this city is pleafanr, but the water is 
naught, and the ground barren., 1 Kings. —Not copious; 
fcanty.—Some fchemes will appear barren, of hints and 
matter, yet prove to be fruitful. Swift.. —Unmeaning up. 
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