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Affidavit [fr. affidare, M. Lat., to pledge one's faith, fr. fides, Lat.], a written statement sworn before a person having authority to administer an oath.By the practice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, all evidence is, as a rule, to be given viva voce; but this may be altered by agreement of the parties, or the Court or a judge may for sufficient reason order that any particular fact or facts may be proved by affidavit, or that the affidavit of any witness may be read at the hearing or trial on such conditions as are thought reasonable; provided that no such order be made where a witness can be produced and is bona fide required for cross-examination (R. S. C. 1883, Ord. XXXVII., r. 1). A new Procedure is provided for by R. S. C., Ord. XXXVIII. A., r. 8 J. affidavits must be confined to such facts as the witness is able of his own knowledge to prove, except on interlocutory motions, on which statements as to his belief, with the grounds thereof, may be admitted.As to time for fil...
Capias ad respondendum
Capias ad respondendum (that you take to answer). A process issued in cases of injury accompanied with force, or otherwise, against the defendant's person, when he neglected to appear upon the former process of attachment, or had no substance whereby to be attached, subjecting his person to imprisonment, 3 Bl. Com. 281. See 48 Geo. 3, c. 58...
Commanding Officer
Commanding Officer, used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means the officer for the time being in command of the unit or detachment to which such person belongs or is attached. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (xv)]when used in any provision of this Act, with reference to any separate portion of the regular army or to any department thereof, means the officer whose duty it is under the regulations of the regular Army, or in the absence of any such regulations, by the custom of the service, to discharge with respect to that portion of the regular Army or that department, as the case maybe, the functions of a commanding officer in regard to matters of the description referred to in that provision. [Army Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 3 (v)]'Commanding officer', used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means an officer for the time being in command of a unit or any separate portion of the Force to which such person belongs or is attached. [Indo-Tibetan Border Polic...
molecular formula
An expression representing the composition of elements in a chemical substance commonly consisting of a series of letters and numbers comprising the atomic symbols of each element present in a compound followed by the number of atoms of that element present in one molecule of the substance Thus the molecular formula for common alcohol ethyl alcohol is C2H6O meaning that each molecule contains two carbon atoms six hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom The molecular formula may be written to provide some indication of the actual structure of the molecule in which case structural units may be written separately Thus ethyl alcohol can also be written as CH3CH2OH or CH3 CH2 OH in which the period or dash between functional groups indicates a single bond between the principle atoms of each group This formula shows that in ethyl alcohol the carbon of a methyl group CH3 is attached to the carbon of a methylene group CH2 which is attached to the oxygen of a hydroxyl group OH A structural formula i...
Debt
Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some contract alleged to have taken place between the parties, or on some matter of fact from which the law would imply a contract between them. This was debt in the debet, which was the principal and only common form. There is another species mentioned in the books, called debt in the detinet, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. An action of debt as a technical term is now obsolete. See PLEADINGS. The order of the payment of debts and expenses out of legal assets in an ordinary administration action in the Chancery Division of the High Court is as follows:-1. Funeral expenses, which in the case of an insolvent estate must be strictly reasonable and necessary only, the executor or administrator being personally liabl...
G string
a patch of cloth attached to and supported by string like cords worn over the hips and serving to cover only the pubic area often worn by stripteasers...
Hilum
The eye of a bean or other seed the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support called also hile...
VerbarHectocotylus
One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs In a special sense the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera which after receiving the spermatophores becomes detached from the male and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes...
headlamp
A powerful light with a reflector attached to the front of an automobile locomotive or other vehicle called also headlight...
Guess warp
A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object...
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