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Barbed-wire. By the (English) Barbed Wire Act,1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 32), s. 2, 'barbed wire' means any wire with spikes or jagged projections; and the expression 'nuisance to a highway,' as applied to it, means barbed wire which may probably be injurious to persons or animals lawfully using such highway. A local authority can require the removal of barbed wire adjoining a highway when it thus constitutes a nuisance; but on lands not adjoining a highway a person is in general under no liability for the use of such wire....
Barbed wire
Barbed wire, means wire with spikes or jugged projections, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 491, p. 365....
Declaration of London, 1909
Declaration of London, 1909. A suggested International agreement to settle doubts concerning inter alia the application of the doctrines of contraband, neutral destination and continuous voyage. A list of three classes of goods was made: (1) absolute contraband or munitions of war; (2) conditionally contraband, or foodstuffs, forage, money, railway materials, fuel, lubricants, barbed wire and optical instruments; (3) not contraband, or any raw textile materials, rubber, hides, metallic ores, earths. Eleven countries signed the convention. With a prescience justified by the developments of science and the uncontrollable nature of a desperate war, the House of Lords refused to ratify it. In practice the declaration was followed by Great Britain and other belligerents with increasing alterations until it was formally, and finally abandoned by this country in April, 1916. A modified list of Articles absolutely or conditionally contraband was issued shortly after. See Hall or Lawrence on In...
Fence
Fence, a hedge, ditch, or other inclosure of land for the better manurance and improvement of the same (Jac. Law Dict.) As to the larceny or malicious destruction of fences, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), ss. 34, 35; (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 8; and Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), s. 25. See BARBED WIRE. The word is also used by criminals to denote a receiver of or dealer in stolen property.A person who receives stolen goods; a place where stolen property sold, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Electrical resistance wires
Electrical resistance wires, the expression 'electrical resistance wires' in Item 73(23) has to be read along with the 'Nichrome' which precedes that expression and, it can only mean electrical wires having characteristics similar to those of Nichrome, namely, high resistivity, keeping in view the low resistivity of Tungsten wire it cannot be regarded as electrical resistance wire falling under Item 73(23), Union of India v. Kalpana Industries Ltd., 1995 Supp (6) SCC 712 (714). [Customs Tariff Act, 1934, Sch. I, Item 73(23)]...
hot wire
to start a car by using a wire instead of a key as when stealing the car the wire is connected to points in the ignition circuit that bypass the key...
Office wire
Copper wire with a strong but light insulation used in wiring houses etc...
Wire rods
Wire rods, properzi rods are a species of 'wire rods', Indian Aluminium Cables Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1985 SC 1201 (1205): (1985) 3 SCC 284: (1985)Supp 1 SCR 731. [Central Excise and Sales Act (1 of 1944), Sch. I, item 27(a)(ii)]...
Wires, Overhead
Wires, Overhead. For power to urban authority to make bye-laws for prevention of danger or obstruction from overhead telegraphic wires: see the Public Health and Local Government Acts. As to the power of the Post Office to place telegraph lines across private property or property belonging to public undertakings, etc., see the (English) Telegraph Acts (41 & 42 Vict. c. 76; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 112; and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 40), and special or local Acts....
wire fraud
wire fraud see fraud ...
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