Abbreviation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: abbreviationAbbreviation
Abbreviation, an abridging or contraction, very frequent in old statues, as of 'rationabilem' by 'ronabilem' (in the Statute de Pr'rogativa Regis) and of 'every' by 'evy' in 22 Hen. 8, c. 5, s. 4 and writings. The Act 4 Geo. 2, c. 26, provided that all law proceedings should be in the English language, written legibly and prescribed also that they shall be in words at length, and not abbreviated; but 6 Geo. 2, c. 14, permitted numbers to be expressed in figures, and such abbreviations as are commonly used. See 1923, W. N. 288. In 9 Rep. 48 is this maxim, Ille numerus et sensus abbreviationum accipiendus est ut concessio non sit inanis. (In abbreviations such number and sense is to be taken that the grant be not made void.) See REGNAL YEARS....
Abbreviate of Adjudication
Abbreviate of Adjudication (in Scots Law), an abstract of the decree of adjudication, and of the lands adjudged, with the amount of the debt. Adjudication is that diligence (execution) of the law by which the real estate of a debtor is adjudged to belong to his creditor in payment of a debt; and the abbreviate must be recorded in the register of adjudication. See Bell's Dictionary....
Abbreviator
Abbreviator, is one who abbreviates, abridges, or shortens; An officer in the court of Rome appointed as assistant to the vice-chancellor for drawing up the Pope's briefs and reducing petitions, when granted into proper form to be converted into papal bulls, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 3....
Abbreviators
Abbreviators, officers who assisted in drawing up the Pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, for their conversion into Papal Bulls. One who abbreviates, abridges or shortens, Black's Law disctionary, 7th Edn., p. 3....
deoxyribonucleotide
an organic molecule consisting of a hereocyclic base attached to the 1 carbon of a deoxyribose ring with a phosphate group esterified at the 5 position of the deoxyribose Deoxyribonuceotides are the monomer units which make up deoxyribonucleic acid the molecule carrying the hereditary information in most organisms The most common forms of deoxyribonuceotide are thymidine 5prime phosphate abbreviated TMP deoxyadenosine 5prime phosphate abbreviated dAMP deoxyguanosine 5prime phosphate abbreviated dGMP and deoxycytidine 5prime phosphate abbreviated dCMP...
Name
Name [fr. nomen, Lat.; nom, Fr.; or namo, Goth.; nama, Sax.; naem, Dut.], the discriminative appellation of an individual.Proper names are either Christian names, as being given at baptism, or surnames, from the father, 4 Rep. 170.A Christian name may be altered at confirmation with consent of the bishop, and the bishop is directed by a Constitution of 1281 to change 'wanton names' at confirmation. See Blunt's Church Law, 2nd ed. at p. 60, where two post-Reformation instances are given of a bishop changing Christian name at confirmation, and it is said to be 'believed that cases still occur where this is done.'Marriage confers a name upon a woman, which is not lost by her divorce, and she can acquire another only by obtaining it by repute obliterating her name by marriage, see Fendall v. Goldsmid, (1877) 2 PD 263. As to retainer of a title, see Cowley v. Cowley, 1901 AC 450.Any one may take on himself whatever surname or as many surnames as he pleases, without an (English) Act of Parli...
electric current
the movement of electrically charged particles atoms or ions through solids liquids gases or free space the term is usually used of relatively smooth movements of electric charge through conductors whether constant or variable Sudden movements of charge are usually referred to by other terms such as spark or lightning or discharge In metallic conductors the electric current is usually due to movement of electrons through the metal The current is measured as the rate of movement of charge per unit time and is counted in units of amperes As a formal definition the direction of movement of electric current is considered as the same as the direction of movement of positive charge or in a direction opposite to the movement of negative charge Electric current may move constantly in a single direction called direct current abbreviated DC or may move alternately in one direction and then the opposite direction called alternating current abbreviated AC...
Ld
The abbreviation for limited term appended to the name of a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability also abbreviated Ltd It corresponds to Inc in the United States...
Queen's Counsel
Queen's Counsel (abbreviated Q.C.). See KING'S COUNSEL (abbreviated K.C.). All Queen's Counsel at the death of the late Queen Victoria became King's Counsel without any new appointment....
Regul' generales
Regul' generales (General Rules) which the courts promulgate from time to time for the regulation of their practice. Before the Judicature Act the more important of these were those promulgated in Hilary Term, 1853, abbreviated as 'R. G. H. T. 1853.' Since the Judicature Act the description is 'Rules of the Supreme Court,' abbreviated as 'R.S.C.'...
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial