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Adjuncts, additional judges....
contingency
contingency pl: -cies 1 : the quality or state of being contingent 2 : a contingent event or condition: as a : an event that may but is not certain to occur [a that made performance under the contract impossible] b : something likely to come about as an adjunct to or result of something else ;specif : contingency fee at FEE [whether a case is on a or billed at an hourly rate "D. R. Frederico"] ...
Chiffon
Any merely ornamental adjunct of a womans dress as a bunch of ribbon lace etc...
Colonnade
A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts as entablature stylobate roof etc...
Participle
A part of speech partaking of the nature of both verb and adjective a form of a verb or verbal adjective modifying a noun but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived In the sentences a letter is written being asleep he did not hear exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly written being and exhaustedare participles...
Printing
The act art or practice of impressing letters characters or figures on paper cloth or other material the business of a printer including typesetting and presswork with their adjuncts typography also the act of producing photographic prints...
Scene
The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited the part of a theater in which the acting is done with its adjuncts and decorations the stage...
Appurtenant
Appurtenant, pertaining or belonging to. See APPENDANT.Appurtenant, when used in connection with leases of properties, has gained wider as well as narrower interpretations through judicial pronouncements, K. Bhagirathi G. Shenoy v. K.P. Ballakuraya, (1999) 4 SCC 135.Appurtenant, belongs to another thing as principal, as hamlet to another village, garden to a home; that which passes as incident to the principal thing, a thing used with and related to or dependent upon another thing more worthy and agreeing in its nature and quality with the thing whereunto it is appedant or appurtenant, that which belongs to something else, an adjunct, an appendage. Law Lexicon of British India; Abbot's Law Dictionary....
Assessory
Assessory, means anything which is joined to another thing as an ornament, or to render it more perfect, or which accompanies it, or is connected with it as an incident, or as subordinate to it, or which belongs to or with it. Adjunct or accompaniment. A thing of subordinate impor-tance, aiding or computing in secondary way or assisting in or contributing to as a subordinate, Black Law Dictionary 5th Edn., p. 13-14....
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
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