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above 1 : higher on the same page or on a preceding page [the discussion ] 2 : higher or superior in rank or authority [the court ] above the line : in calculations that yield adjusted gross income or profit adj : written or discussed higher on the same page or on a preceding page [the argument] ...
Above-cited, or mentioned
Above-cited, or mentioned, quoted before. A figurative expression taken from the ancient manner of writing books or scrolls, where whatever is mentioned or cited before in the same roll must be above....
Pawnbroker
Pawnbroker, contemplates that every person who keeps a shop for the purchase or sale of goods or chattels and who purchases goods or chattels and pays or advances thereon any sum of money, with or under an agreement or understanding expressed or implied that the goods or chattel may be afterwards repurchased on any terms, is a 'pawnbroker', Karnataka Pawnbrokers' Assn. v. State of Karnataka, (1998) 7 SCC 707.One who lends money on goods which he receives upon pledge.The rate of interest which pawnbrokers may take has been fixed by law since 1800, by 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 48, which Act placed their whole business under various other restrictions. By the (English) Pawn-brokers Act, 1872 (which applies to Scotland, but not to Ireland), this Act, together with its amending Acts, is repealed, and the statute law of the subject consolidated. Sch. IV., dealing with profits and charges, has been amended by the (English) Pawnbrokers Act, 1922, in respect of loans not exceeding 40s.By s. 5 of the A...
Abusing children
Abusing children, having carnal intercourse with young girls. If the girl be under the age of 13 (formerly 10 and afterwards 12) years, the offences is a felony punishable with penal servitude for life; if the girl be above the age of 13 (formerly 10 and afterwards 12) and under 16 (formerly 12 and afterwards 13), the offence is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment, with or without hard labour, to the extent of two years, (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. C. 69), repealing the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1875, repealing 24 & 25 Vict. C. 100, ss. 50, 51, which fixed lesser ages as above. The (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 56), amends the Act of 1885, so that in the case of the second of the above-mentioned offences, it shall be a sufficient defence if it shall be made to appear to the Court or jury that the person charged had reasonable cause to believe that the girl was of, or above the age of 16, but only if h...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
National insurance
National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George, established a wide system of compulsory state insurance covering both ill-health and unemployment, which is based upon premiums contributed in part by the employer, in part by the employee, and in part by the State. The Act consisted of three parts, the first dealing with National Health Insurance, the second with Unemployment Insurance, and the third contained miscellaneous provisions. This Act remained the basis of National Health Insurance, although the subject of very extensive amendment, until the National Health Insurance Act, 1924, consolidated the law. The law has been consolidated again by the (English) National Health Insurance Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 32), amends and repeals the whole of the Acts passed in 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1928. The arrangement is as follows:-Part I. Insured Persons and Contributions.Part II. Benefits.Part III. Approved Soc...
Sky Sign
Sky Sign. This expression is defined in s. 91 (3) of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, as follows:-'Sky sign' meansAny word, letter, model, sign, device, or representa-tion in the nature of an advertisement, announce-ment, or direction supported on or attached to any post, pole, standard, framework, or other support wholly or in part upon, over, or above any house, building or structure which, or any part of which, sky sign shall be visible against the sky from some point in any street or public way, and includes all and every part of any such post, pole, standard, framework, or other support.The expression 'sky sign' shall also include:Any balloon, parachute, or other similar device employed wholly or in part for the purposes of any advertisement or announcement on, over, or above any house, building, structure, or erection of any kind, or on or over any street or public way;But shall not include:(a) Any flagstaff, pole, vane, or weathercock unless adapted or used wholly or ...
air right
air right : a property right to the space above a surface or object (as a building) that may be sold or leased for development purposes [make use of the air rights above the Terminal "Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York, 438 U.S. 104 (1978)"] ...
Bulb
A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground usually below which is strictly a bud consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves and producing as it grows a stem above and roots below as in the onion tulip etc It differs from a corm in not being solid...
critical temperature
A certain temperature different for different gases but always the same for each gas regarded as the temperature above which no amount of pressure can produce condensation to a liquid the temperature above which a gas cannot be liquified...
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