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Eacutetat Major

The staff of an army including all officers above the rank of colonel also all adjutants inspectors quartermasters commissaries engineers ordnance officers paymasters physicians signal officers judge advocates also the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers

Hyper

A prefix signifying over above as hyperphysical hyperthyrion also above measure abnormally great excessive as hyperaeligmia hyperbola hypercritical hypersecretion

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...

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Overlook

To look down upon from a place that is over or above to look over or view from a higher position to be situated above so as to command a view of as to overlook a...

Court of limited jurisdiction

Court of limited jurisdiction, ought not to be given a limited or restrictive interpretation and as noticed above but widest possible amplitude ought to be given onto the expression above, Rajendra Kumar v. Kalyan, (2000) 8...

Alien

Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens...

Bail

Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken for his appearance on a day and at a place certain, which security is called bail,...

Brevet

Brevet, a commission conferring on an officer a degree of rank immediately above that which he holds in his particular regiment; without, however, conveying a power to receive the corresponding pay. Brevet rank does not exist...

Children

Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is defined by the (English) Children and Young Persons...

Acting in any manner prejudicial to the main-tenance of public order

Acting in any manner prejudicial to the main-tenance of public order, The expressions 'law and order', 'public order' and 'security of the State' are distinct concepts though not always separate. Whereas every breach of peace may...

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Eacutetat Major

The staff of an army including all officers above the rank of colonel also all adjutants inspectors quartermasters commissaries engineers ordnance officers paymasters physicians signal officers judge advocates also the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers

Hyper

A prefix signifying over above as hyperphysical hyperthyrion also above measure abnormally great excessive as hyperaeligmia hyperbola hypercritical hypersecretion

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...

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Overlook

To look down upon from a place that is over or above to look over or view from a higher position to be situated above so as to command a view of as to overlook a...

Court of limited jurisdiction

Court of limited jurisdiction, ought not to be given a limited or restrictive interpretation and as noticed above but widest possible amplitude ought to be given onto the expression above, Rajendra Kumar v. Kalyan, (2000) 8...

Alien

Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens...

Bail

Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken for his appearance on a day and at a place certain, which security is called bail,...

Brevet

Brevet, a commission conferring on an officer a degree of rank immediately above that which he holds in his particular regiment; without, however, conveying a power to receive the corresponding pay. Brevet rank does not exist...

Children

Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is defined by the (English) Children and Young Persons...

Acting in any manner prejudicial to the main-tenance of public order

Acting in any manner prejudicial to the main-tenance of public order, The expressions 'law and order', 'public order' and 'security of the State' are distinct concepts though not always separate. Whereas every breach of peace may...

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