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Ripping panel

long patch on a balloon to be ripped off by the rip cord at landing in order to allow the immediate escape of gas and instant deflation of the bag

Self contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

A portable device to allow divers to breathe while under water consisting of one or two tanks of compressed air which are strapped

Absque impetitione vasti

for life, that no man shall proceed against him for waste committed. This reservation does not extend to allow excessive or outrageous acts of waste, such as felling timber planted for ornament, which is called 'equitable waste'

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Alimony

Alimony [fr. alimonia. Lat.], the allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate for her support, either during a matrimonial suit or

Aqu' immittendae

of a house, surrounded by other buildings, so that it has no outlet for its waters, has, to allow them to run upon and over his neighbour's land, Civil Law.

axation of costs

axation of costs. The mode by which certain officers of the various courts allow or disallow the sums claimed by solicitors from their clients, or by the one party in an action

Bad-man theory

best test of what the law actually is because that person will carefully calculate precisely what the rules allow and operate up to the rules limits. This theory was first espoused by Oliver Wendell Holmes in his

Copyhold

Queen's Bench (now the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice) will order the lord to allow such inspection, and if the lord then refuse, he will be attached. There are two courts incident to

Bastard

of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if the parents afterwards intermarried, but a proposal by the bishops to

Best evidence rule

that there is but one general rule of evidence, the best that the nature of the case will allow, Omychnd v. Barker, (1745) 1 Atk 21. Best evidence rule, means the rule requires in effect that the

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