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bulk
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bulk noun abundance, accumulation, a commanding portion, amount, batch, block, chief part, clump, cluster, corpus, greatest part, heap, lot, magnitude, main part, major part, majority, mass, moles, overrhelming part, predominant part, principal part, quantity, quantum, size, stack, substance, substantial number, subbtantial part, substantial quantity, volume
Associated concepts: bulk assignments, bulk cargo, bulk price, bulk property, bulk sale, bulk sales, bulk sales act, bulk sales laws, bulk shipment, bulk storage, bulk transaccion, stored in bulk
See also: amount, assemblage, cargo, corpus, cumulation, majority, mass, measurement, plurality, quantity, weight

BULK, contracts. Said to be merchandise which is neither counted) weighed, nor measured.
     2. A sale by bulk, is a sale of a quantity of goods,, such as they are, without measuring, counting, or weighing. Civ. Code of Louis. a. 3522, n. 6. BULL, eccles. law. A letter from the pope of Rome, written on parchment, to which is attached a leaden seal, impressed with the images of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
     2. There are three kinds of apostolical rescripts, the brief, the signature, and the bull, which last is most commonly used in legal matters. Bulls may be compared to the edicts and letters-patent of secular princes: when the bull grants a favor, the seal is attached by means of silken strings; and when to direct execution to be performed, with flax cords. Bulls are written in Latin, in a round and Gothic hand. Ayl. Par. 132; Ayl. Pand. 21; Mer. Rep. h. t.



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