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Home Dictionary Name: battery Page: 5Depolarizer
A substance used to prevent polarization as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery...
Discharger
One who or that which discharges Specifically in electricity an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar or electrical battery by making a connection between the two surfaces a discharging rod...
fagot
A bundle of sticks twigs or small branches of trees used for fuel for raising batteries filling ditches or other purposes in fortification a fascine...
Fascine
A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood bound together used in raising batteries filling ditches strengthening ramparts and making parapets also in revetments for river banks and in mats for dams jetties etc...
Criminal information
Criminal information, a proceeding in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice atthe suit of the king,without a previous indictment or presentment by a grand jury. Criminal informa-tions are of two sorts: (1) Ex officio, which is a formal, written suggestion of an offence com-mitted, filed bby the Attorney-General, or, in the vacancy of that office, by the Solicitor-General, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, without the intervention of a grandjury. It lies for misdemeanours only, and not for treasons or felonies. The informationis filed in the Crown Office without the previous leave of the Court. (2) Information by the Master of the Crown Office, which is filed at the instance of an individual called 'the relator,' with the leave of the Court; and usually confined to gross and notorious misdemeanours, riots, batteries, libels, and other immoralities. Criminal informations may also be filed against judges and magistrates for illegal, unjust,and wilfully oppre...
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